⚔️📍 Princeton, New Jersey1783
Continental Army Disbanded — American Revolution Officially Over
Congress officially disbanded the Continental Army, formally ending the Revolutionary War. Most soldiers had already gone home after Yorktown two years earlier; the formal disbanding marked America's transformation from a wartime to a peacetime nation.
The peaceful disbanding of the Continental Army — rather than a military coup — set a defining precedent for civilian control of the military in American democracy.
Outcome
Revolutionary War ends; civilian government confirmed