George Washington's secret spy ring that won the American Revolution

[basquebromance]

he had six folks form a spy ring & spy on the British. tune in to this thread as I will talk about this topic in detail!

"George Washington didn't outfight us, he simply outspied us!" - Major George Beckwith, British Intelligence Officer, 1782

 

[basquebromance]

the spy ring's contributions included uncovering a British counterfeiting scheme, preventing an ambush of French reinforcements, smuggling a British naval codebook to Yorktown, and most importantly, preventing Benedict Arnold from carrying out one of the greatest acts of treachery in American history: his plan to surrender West Point to the enemy.

 

[whitehall]

Three American patriots who arrested a Brit officer, Major Andre and found documents implicating Arnold, are responsible for uncovering the West Point plot but they weren't spies.

 

[basquebromance]

faced with an impending British attack, Washington surveyed his undisciplined army. he asked his aide: "General Howe is rumored to have more than 30,000 men in the Navy assembled offshore, and 20,000 on Staten Island. And we have...?"

His aide was reluctant to reply. "Ten thousand."

the number was a blow to Washington, but he did not show it. ever the HEROIC STOIC, he refused to go into despair. Washington was famed as a man who never lost his nerve in battle. the sound of musket fire, the crash of cannonballs, the smell of smoke...none of it shakes Washington's calm, measured way of surveying the chaos and keeping his wits about him as he led his men forward. using his wits, he quickly discovered he had to establish a spy ring to gain an advantage over the brits, because his army was rough around the edges to say the least (it was made up of city men who had never held rifle and country folks who never went a day to school)