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2 unusual facts about Whiskey Rebellion


Army National Guard units with campaign credit for the War of 1812

In 1792 the militia companies from this part of Virginia were reorganized as companies in the 1oth and 16th Brigades, Virginia Militia, which served in the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794.

Farmer's Delight

Lane, a member of the Virginia General Assembly in 1792-1793, was a colonel in the U.S. Army during the Whiskey Rebellion, and had been a member of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.


Liberty pole

During the Whiskey Rebellion, locals in western Pennsylvania would erect poles along the roads or in town centers as a protest against the federal government's tax on distilled spirits, and evoke the spirit embodied by the liberty poles of decades earlier.


see also

David Bradford

David Bradford House, historic house in Pennsylvania, USA, home of David Bradford, a leader of the Whiskey Rebellion