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Capture of Major Andre, 1780

Date
  • 1900/1940
Description
  • On September 22, 1780, one of the most startling and the saddest event of the Revolution occurred. Benedict Arnold, Washington's trusted friend, commander at West Point, had turned traitor. The discovery was made through the arrest of Andre, a British spy by whom Arnold attempted to send a plan of the fort to the British commander at New York. "We took him into the bushes" said Williams, "and ordered him to pull off his clothes, which he did; but, on searching him narrowly, we could not find any sort of writings. We told him to pull of his boots, which he seemed to be indifferent about; but we got one boot off, and searched in that boot, and could find nothing. But we found there were some papers in the bottom of his stocking next to his foot; on which we made him pull his stocking off, and found three papers wrapped up. Mr. Paulding looked at the contents, and said he was a spy. We then made him pull off his other boot, and there we found three more papers at the bottom of his foot within his stocking."
Subject
Work Type
Location
Identifier
  • P217:09:24
Local Collection Name
Is Part Of
  • Set 15 - Revolutionary War
Institution
Submission Date
  • 09/08/2016
Modified
  • 05/27/2023
Collections

APA

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. (18 Apr 2024). Capture of Major Andre, 1780 Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df715c11t

MLA

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. "Capture of Major Andre, 1780" Oregon Digital. 18 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df715c11t

Chicago

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. "Capture of Major Andre, 1780" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-18. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df715c11t

Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140139
2 lantern slides http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300134977
3 New York >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5128638/
4 Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217) http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/p_217
5 Oregon State University http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80017721

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