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Peggy Shippen is portrayed by Erin McGathy and Winona Ryder in the Drunk History episode on Philadelphia. [22] She is also portrayed in the TV miniseries George Washington by Megan Gallagher, in the TV movie Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor by Flora Montgomery, and in the Revolutionary War drama Turn: Washington's Spies by Ksenia Solo.
Peggy Shippen… did have a significant role in the plot. She exerted powerful influence on her husband, who is said to have been his own man but who actually was swayed by his staff and certainly by his wife. Peggy came from a loyalist family in Philadelphia; she had many ties to the British. She… was the conduit for information to the ...
Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor is a 2003 American television film directed by Mikael Salomon and starring Aidan Quinn, Kelsey Grammer, Flora Montgomery and John Light.It portrays the career of Benedict Arnold in the American Revolutionary War and his dramatic switch in 1780 from fighting for American Independence to being a Loyalist trying to preserve British rule in America.
During the summer of 1778 Arnold met Peggy Shippen, the 18-year-old daughter of Judge Edward Shippen, a Loyalist sympathizer who had done business with the British while they occupied the city. [76] Peggy had been courted by British Major John André during the British occupation of Philadelphia. [77] Peggy and Arnold married on April 8, 1779. [78]
Peggy is a 1970 historical novel by Lois Duncan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a semi-fictionalized account of the life of Peggy Shippen , the second wife of General Benedict Arnold , a prominent figure in Philadelphia after the American Revolutionary War .
However, he had become bitter about the decline in his financial fortunes caused by the war, and the reluctance of the Continental Congress to grant him the promotions Arnold believed he deserved. [6] [7] Arnold's Loyalist wife, Peggy Shippen, was one of the go-betweens in his correspondence
Finishing Becca: A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold is a 1994 historical fiction novel for young adults written by Ann Rinaldi. It takes place during the American Revolutionary War . Plot
A coded communication. Handwriting by Peggy Shippen Arnold is interspersed with coded communication in Arnold's hand.. The Arnold Cipher was a book cipher used by John André and Benedict Arnold during the negotiations that led to Arnold's failed attempt to surrender West Point to the British in 1780.