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Title: Famous spies in American history
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Bryan, George S. (George Sands), 1879-1943
Subjects: Spies Spies
Publisher: Springfield, Ohio : Crowell Publishing Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Benedict Arnold Brilliant officer and traitor ending the war layin the success of the negotiations with Arnold. André was taken up the Hudson River on the British ship Vulture, He was to meet Arnold two miles below Haverstraw, outside the American lines. He went in uniform, under the name John Anderson. He carried a safe-conduct from Arnold, but no flag of truce. At daybreak, he passed the American lines and met Arnold in a house at Haverstraw where plans were given to him for the surrender of the fort. Meanwhile, the Vulture, having been fired on by American artillery, dropped down the stream without him. André then disguised himself — a fatal mistake —crossed the Hudson at dusk, and started for New York. On the following morning André was halted near Tarrytown by three men, Harvey Birch Refuses the Money Offered by George Washington A scene from Coopers novel, The Spy, of which Birch is the hero FAMOUS SPIES
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Monument to the Captors of Major André, Erected in Tarrytown, New York John Paulding, David Williams, and Isaac Van Wart. None was in military service, but, according to the best evidence, bent only upon robbery. Williams and Van Wart were already known as marauders and Van Wart was suspected of being a Tory by his neighbors. Attracted by his handsome white-topped boots they took him to a large tulip tree, stripped him, and in his stockings found the papers that convicted him. Paulding alone could read. Even so, it appears, they would have let André go had he had sufficient money with him to satisfy his captors. After stripping him of his belongings, Andrés captors turned him over to Lieutenant Colonel Jameson at Northcastle. While the court-martial was deliberating, almost four years to a day after Nathan Hales execution André FAMOUS SPIES questioned Major Tallmadge, his custodian, as to his probable fate. Tallmadge, a close friend of Nathan Hale, recalled the Americans fate. Surely, said André,

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