George Washington's Farewell On General George who had done more than any other man to win independence for the American met with his officers at the comer of Pearl and Broad Streets in New His army had only recently occupied the city after its evacuation by the IN THE public room of Tavern he spoke a brief farewell and asked each to bid him a personal As each officer stepped before him Washington kissed his there were many tears among the hardened soldiers as Washington drank a toast to their thanking them for their services and loyalty to him and the cause of American FT WAS the first legendary-farewell of an American after the birth of the to be followed in later generations by many perhaps the most famous of being that of another Robert E. to the Army of Northern Virginia in