I wasn't speaking of the whiskey rebellion.
The question was who was the first president to send troops
against US citizens.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Duston [mailto:hduston@speedscript.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:05 PM
> To: Kclug
> Subject: RE: Taking up arms...
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> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 17:16, Brian Densmore wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jonathan Hutchins
> > > Taken American History yet?  See "whiskey rebellion".  
> > > Care to guess the first president to send U.S. armed 
> > > forces against U.S. citizens?  (The Army won, by the way.)
> > That would be Washington, and that would also predate the
> > constitution. ;)
> 
> Signing of the constitution: September 17, 1787
> Whiskey Rebellion: 1974.
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> Hal
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