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[citation needed] Around this time, André took over control of British communication with Continental Army officer Benedict Arnold. Arnold was a popular general officer who had been wounded twice in battle, and was considered an American hero for his actions at the Battles of Saratoga. However, he had become bitter about the decline in his ...
Benedict Arnold, played by Owain Yeoman, is a major character in the TV series Turn: Washington's Spies [164] Benedict Arnold, voiced by Andy Samberg, as the primary antagonist and werewolf in the animated action parody America: The Motion Picture [165] The episode Benedict Arnold Slipped Here from TV series Murder, She Wrote. [166]
Agent 355 was best known for providing the intelligence that led to the capture of the treasonous Benedict Arnold. [59] While some sources make note of Agent 355 as an intelligence gatherer, others believe the code number simply referred to Anna Strong , or was a misunderstanding of a cryptic reference in one of Abraham Woodhull's letters.
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.
A portrait of Major John Andre remains upside down at the '76 House in Tappan. General George Washington turned it over when Andre was hung as a spy after giving the plans of West Point to ...
Arnold and André talked through the night at Smith's house, but the Vulture was fired upon and moved downriver, stranding the British major behind American lines. André, despite being given a pass signed by Arnold, was captured, tried as a spy, and hanged. Arnold made it safely to New York City, where he was given a commission in the British ...
David Williams (October 21, 1754 – August 2, 1831) was a militiaman from the state of New York during the American Revolution.In 1780, he was one of three men to capture British Major John André, who was convicted and executed as a spy for conspiring with treasonous Continental general and commandant of West Point Benedict Arnold.
John Paulding (October 16, 1758 – February 18, 1818) was an American militiaman from the state of New York during the American Revolution. In 1780, he was one of three men who captured Major John André, a British spy associated with the treason of Continental general and commandant of West Point Benedict Arnold. Andre was convicted and ...