Bonus Army
In US history, a march on Washington, DC, by unemployed ex-servicemen during the Great Depression to lobby Congress for immediate cash payment of a promised war veterans' bonus.
During the spring of 1932, some 15,000 veterans camped by the River Potomac or squatted in disused government buildings. They were eventually dispersed by troops.
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