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



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Jon Kukla
www.JonKukla.com <http://www.jonkukla.com/>

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