The Whiskey Rebellion was a group of violent protesters, who were farmers in western Pennsylvania, against the federal excise tax on whiskey in the year 1794. “The “rebels” invoked the symbols of 1776, displaying liberty poles and banners reading “Liberty or Death”” (Foner 295). George Washington dispatches his largest force which was more than he had ever commanded during the Revolutionary War. The forces Washington was leading were thirteen thousand militiamen being led towards the western Pennsylvania to stop the rebellion. Washington accompanied the militiamen part of the way. This is the only time in American history when the President of the United States took command of an army in the field. After the militiamen arrived, the rebels continued
