General, Whiskey Rebellion figure. This Virginia native was a career soldier who served with British General Edward Braddock during the French and Indian War and fought in Lord Dunmore's War in 1774. During the Revolutionary War, he was Colonel of the 4th Virginia Regiment, serving at Trenton, Princeton, Germantown, and Monmouth. He also served as Commandant at Fort Pitt in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After the war, he became an inspector of revenue under the excise laws. In 1791, the newly formed U.S. Congress imposed a tax on distilled spirits to help pay for the cost of the Revolutionary War. The small rural whiskey operations located in the western part of the new nation were charged at a higher rate than their larger competitors in the eastern section of the country. This led to an uprising in western Pennsylvania known as "The Whiskey Rebellion." This controversy climaxed in 1794 when shots were fired, according to Alexander Hamilton, at General Neville and a U.S. Marshall he was escorting through the area to summon farmers who had not paid the tax to court. The tensions escalated on July 16, 1794, when a group of men surrounded the Neville Mansion outside of Pittsburgh, demanding to see the U.S. Marshall. The confrontation led to the shooting of Oliver Miller, one of the protesters, by an occupant of the mansion. This further angered the frontiersmen, and, the next day, over 500 men once again surrounded the home. The result of this clash was the death of the commander of the protestors, Major James McFarlane, and General Neville's home being burned to the ground. This incident persuaded President George Washington to take the drastic action of leading a militia force of 13,000 men into Western Pennsylvania to squelch the uprising. This response marked the first time under the new Constitution that the federal government had used a strong military presence to exert authority over the nation's citizens. In 1802, the tax was repealed. When Neville died in 1803, he was buried at the Trinity Church Burial Ground in Downtown Pittsburgh. In 1900, his remains were exhumed and moved to Allegheny Cemetery.