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During his Presidential Address on 26 September, Washington called for the immediate removal of Smith as he won the election through treachery and had a list of known collaborators that helped him. Hundreds of disgruntled army soldiers who had trained under Washington for the aborted invasion of New England flocked to Williamsburg to rally behind their general. For several days, neither Washington nor Smith made a move, but on the afternoon of 2 October a fight broke out between Washington's soldiers and the Jamestown Guard. Washington's forces would oust Smith from the city by the early morning the following day marking the last day of Smith's government.