Washington squelched a prospective coup d'etat in 1782 - see ROBERT F. HAGGARD The Nicola Affair: Lewis Nicola, George Washington, and American Military Discontent during the Revolutionary War http://www.aps-pub.com/proceedings/1462/201.pdf Both the Nicola scheme and a the subsequent idea of importing a prince was treated, long ago, in Louise Burnham Dunbar's "A Study of 'Monarchical' Tendencies in the United States, from 1776 to 1800" (Urbana, University of Illinois, 1923 - and more recent reprints) - http://www.archive.org/stream/studyofmonarchic101dunb/studyofmonarchic101dunb_djvu.txt -- Jon Kukla www.JonKukla.com <http://www.jonkukla.com/> ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html