Results 14 External links Congress created executive departments in 1789 including the State Department in July the Department of War in August and the Treasury Department in September Washington appointed fellow Virginian Edmund Randolph as Attorney General Samuel Osgood as Postmaster General Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State and Henry Knox as Secretary of War Finally he appointed Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury Washington's cabinet became a consulting and advisory body not mandated by the Constitution. . The British did not give up their forts until 1796 in the eastern Midwest stretching from Ohio to Wisconsin; they kept alive the dream of forming a satellite Indian nation there which they called a Neutral Indian Zone That goal was one of the causes of the War of 1812. .
. . ! Howe outmaneuvered Washington at the Battle of Brandywine on September 11 1777 and marched unopposed into the nation's capital at Philadelphia an October Patriot attack failed against the British at Germantown Major General Thomas Conway prompted some members of Congress (referred to as the Conway Cabal) to consider removing Washington from command because of the losses incurred at Philadelphia Washington's supporters resisted and the matter was finally dropped after much deliberation. Once exposed Conway wrote an apology to Washington resigned and returned to France. . 5.1 Return to Mount Vernon Despite initial objections from the Whigs and from abolitionists the Mexican war nevertheless united the U.S in a common cause and was fought almost entirely by volunteers the United States Army swelled from just over 6,000 to more than 115,000 the majority of 12-month volunteers in Scott's army decided that a year's fighting was enough and returned to the U.S.
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