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General Washington’s Spies on Long Island and in New York

by Morton Pennypacker

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After Nathan Hale was hanged, Washington built a secret network to report on the British army in New York. Pennypacker reconstructs the Culper Ring, led by Benjamin Tallmadge and including Abraham Woodhull and Robert Townsend, with its invisible ink, coded letters and whaleboat couriers across Long Island Sound, and identifies Townsend as Culper Junior.

The research that uncovered the Revolution’s most successful spy ring. Download the free EPUB.

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