"the adoption by the US of the debts of the renegade states arising from the civil war "?? Well, we in the US rarely think of the Revolutionary War as a civil war, but I suppose that a Brit would do so. The US Army was not involved, by the way - the troops that suppressed the Whiskey Rebellion, which was pretty much limited to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the immediately surrounding area, were all militia. The army itself had a total of about 1,000 men at the time.