Continental Army Officers Attempting to Form the Society of the Cincinnati

question 96

Multiple Choice

Continental army officers attempting to form the Society of the Cincinnati

• A) were brought to trial for trying to sabotage the civil government.
• B) were ridiculed for their lordly pretensions.
• C) were trying to force the Congress to pay them their pensions.
• D) reflected the Revolutionary War generation's spirit of equality.
• E) represented the best of the officer corps.

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