the parting glass quote of the day

With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable…I…shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.

225 years ago today, General George Washington bid an emotional farewell to his officers on the corner of Pearl and Broad Streets, in lower Manhattan, at Fraunces Tavern, after the last British ships evacuated the harbor.
Washington would return to Fraunces Tavern to celebrate his inauguration 6 years later.