Robert Philson and Herman Husband were arrested after this event, which led to the assembling of a twelve thousand man militia known as the Watermelon Army to put it down. That army was led by Lighthorse Harry Lee and George Washington, who wanted to prove federal power by opposing the insurrection of farmers unhappy with the excise tax on a certain good

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1. Robert Philson and Herman Husband were arrested after this event, which led to the assembling of a twelve thousand man militia known as the Watermelon Army to put it down. That army was led by Lighthorse Harry Lee and George Washington, who wanted to prove federal power by opposing the insurrection of farmers unhappy with the excise tax on a certain good