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Society of the Cincinnati reshaped by early opposition and revival
The article recounts the 1783 founding at Verplanck House with Knox and Washington, the order’s emblem and membership rules, and the fierce backlash from Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and others who warned of hereditary military nobility. It notes the rise of Tammany Hall as a counter-move and Lafayette’s 1824 visit that briefly revived interest.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Hudson River
Newburgh
N. Y
Washington
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Hasbrouck
Martha Washington
Tench Tilghman
David Humphries
Benjamin Walker
William Stevens Smith
Hedijah Baylies
Jonathan Trumbull
Jonathan” Trumbull
Connecticut
New Windsor
Hudson
Lexington
Congress
Henry Knox
West Point
Knox
Verplanck House
Baron von Steuben
Fish Kill
Society of the Cincinnati
England
Cincinnatus
France
America
Republic
Cinsionatus
Virtutis Praemium
L’enfant
Washington, D
Continental Army
General Society
A. R
American Legion
the Cincinnati
Mirabeau
Cincinnati
Young Republic
Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Massachusetts
Cambridge
University Center
Union
Aedanus Burke
Supreme Court of
South Carolina
Cassius
Atlantic
The
Tammany Hall
New York
Rhode Island
Georgia
North Carolina
Virginia
Delaware
New Hampshire
Lafayette
Honorable Society of the Cincinnati
Association of War Veterans
Western Newspaper Union