Portrait by Pompeo Batoni, 1783
QUICK FACTS
BORN:
15 January 1716 in Albany, New York
DIED:
12 June 1778 in York, Pennsylvania
- Buried in Prospect Hills Cemetery in York, Pennsylvania.
CONTENTS
Portrait by Pompeo Batoni, 1783
During the war ... Washington thought his way to federalism, long before a Federalist Party existed. He believed in a strong central government, supreme over the states; a strong financial system on the British model, with taxes to fund its debt; a flourishing commerce to create prosperity (and to train seamen for a powerful navy, which would in turn protect shipping); and a strong military. And most officers came out of the experience of the Revolution with the same views.