THE FARMERS WHO FIRED ON AMERICA

The Untold Story of the Whiskey Rebellion and the President Who Marched an Army Against His Own People

von Wilbur W. Wiley

204 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In the autumn of 1794, President George Washington put on his old army uniform and rode west at the head of thirteen thousand soldiers. His target was not a foreign enemy. It was a group of Pennsylvania farmers who had taken up arms against their own government.

The trouble started with a tax on whiskey. To lawmakers in Philadelphia, it looked like a fair way to pay off war debt. To farmers on the frontier, whiskey was not a luxury. It was their currency, their medicine, and often their only way to turn grain into money. When federal agents arrived to collect the tax, they were met with hot tar, feathers, and gunfire.

What followed was years of secret meetings, burned homes, government spies, and a country forced to ask a question it had never faced before. How far can citizens go to resist a law they believe is unjust, and how far can a government go to stop them?

THE FARMERS WHO FIRED ON AMERICA tells this story through the people who lived it. You will meet the tax collectors who risked their lives doing an unpopular job, the farmers who believed they were finishing the fight the Revolution started, and the government agents who moved through both worlds while trusting no one. At the center of it all stands Washington, forced to decide whether mercy or force would define the country he had helped create.

This is a true story about the cost of liberty, the limits of protest, and the moment America came close to tearing itself apart only a few years after it was born.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798185498798
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.07.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published