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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.
It tells of the Culper Ring, a group of George Washington's spies operating out of New York City during the Revolution. The story includes familiar names—Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benedict Arnold, Peggy Shippen—and one unfamiliar number, the mysterious Spy 355. 355 was the Culpers' code for "lady," and after 225 years she remains a ...
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.
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 .
Pages in category "British spies during the American Revolution" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Peggy Shippen; W. Paul Wentworth ...
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]
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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.