General Washington's spies on Long Island and in New York

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General Washington's spies on Long Island and in New York

by Morton Pennypacker

EN·~10 hours·20 chapters

Chapters

20 total

Transcriber’s Notes

0:38

GENERAL WASHINGTON’S SPIES On Long Island and In New York

0:03

LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

2:20

PREFATORY NOTE TO “THE TWO SPIES, NATHAN HALE AND ROBERT TOWNSEND.”

3:58

ILLUSTRATIONS

3:13

FOREWORD

34:10

NATHAN HALE

21:01

GENERAL WASHINGTON’S SPIES

57:12

SECRET SERVICE SECRETS

1:18:12

TOWNSEND’S PERSONALITY

19:54

Description

"In this volume are now collected a majority of the letters still in existence from spies in the American service during the Revolutionary War."--Foreword, p. 17.

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Language

en

Duration

~10 hours (580K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Long Island Historical Society, 1939.

Credits

Tim Lindell, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Release date

2023-02-24

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Career in espionageSpies -- New York (State) -- History -- 18th centuryEspionage -- New York (State) -- History -- 18th centuryUnited States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Secret serviceNew York (State) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Secret serviceLong Island (N.Y.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

About the author

Morton Pennypacker

Morton Pennypacker

1872–1956

Best remembered for bringing George Washington’s spy network to a wider audience, this Long Island historian turned local archives into lively stories. His work helped preserve regional history while making the Revolutionary era feel immediate and human.

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