Posted on 11/08/2014 9:32:44 PM PST by RoosterRedux
Let the politicians debate equal pay and pursue the folly of a war on women in America. Personally, I would like to take a moment to salute woman at war—one woman and one war in particular: Agent 355, the female covert operative of the Revolutionary War’s Culper Spy Ring.
When my book "George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution" ,written with co-author Don Yaeger, was first released in November 2013, over half-a-million people scrambled to buy it and one of the elements that struck a chord most strongly with readers was the enigmatic figure of 355.
Two centuries of research have unearthed the names of the five male civilian spies: Abraham Woodhull, Robert Townsend, Caleb Brewster, Austin Roe, and James Rivington, but no one with certainty can name 355, which was the Culper code for “lady.” When Woodhull wrote that a certain 355 “will outwit them all,” he probably did not imagine that she would still be outwitting our best efforts to unmask her more than 230 years later!
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
War of Secrets; Spy History 101: America’s Intelligence Quotient
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/weekinreview/war-of-secrets-spy-history-101-america-s-intelligence-quotient.html
Returning to England after the Revolutionary War, Maj. George Beckwith, London’s spymaster in the colonies, remarked bitterly that ‘’Washington did not really outfight the British; he simply outspied us!’’
Thx for that link Jack. Good stuff!
I see....
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Yes, George Washington was a spy and a master of deceit. He knew how to create just the right lie, not too big, not too small.
And he knew how to deliver the lie with deceit, for example he would have a suspected turncoat be given the lie as part of a message for delivery to one of his colonels knowing full well the turncoat would be intercepted by the British and thus the lie delivered as planned.
And there is the saying when young Washington was confronted about the Cherry Tree he had chopped down “I cannot tell a lie!”.
So who was the real Washington?
The answer is he was two different people; one to his enemies and another to his American compatriots.
He was a gentleman, full of honor and integrity to his fellow Americans.
To his enemies he was either a dim country bumpkin with no real sophistication or he was the devil incarnate; he decided how he was viewed by others. He allowed which view of him was in play by passing coded messages some of which were designed to be deliberately intercepted.
Master of deceit; master of disinformation; master of strategy; master of psychology; he kept his enemies right where he wanted them to be and thinking what he wanted them to think.
I wish more Americans knew about the person of George Washington. He was indeed the greatest American, and I think will forever be the greatest American. There are thousands of anecdotes about him and each has a lesson.
Considering his service as a British office, including service as a senior American aide to British General Edward Braddock at age 23 and with intelligence on his growth as a man and a politician and figure of power and wealth, that is unlikely.
In the early part of the war, he was beaten back and much of his army had deserted him. The British Aristocracy scoffed, smirked at his abilities, his reputation and his ‘place’. He used that underestimation of him to his advantage.
That always happens in daily conversation during a war, but I doubt that was their 30 year history of the man.
Washington was a very large figure, not an unknown during his pre General life.
Washington was a Pisces, as was Sam Houston.
I’ve only met a few revolutionary Pisces, but they get it done when push comes to shove. Rick Perry is also a Pisces.
I’m betting on Cruz, the Capricorn.
Also, Washington’s father was a tobacco farmer and Washington has grown up on his father’s plantation. Washington later became a land surveyor which served him immensely in his career as a British spy and also in helping keep his troops in service during the way.
Washington was never a polished urban dweller with high education and title.
As you say he was only 23 at the time of his service in the year French and Indian war and he was looking to improve his lot in life via the military.
His selection by the British as an expeditionary and spy was factored on his skills as a land surveyor. He surveyed tracts of land in what was called the ‘wilderness’ at the time which was fixed around the Ohio territories. His commission as a British officer was primarily to act as land surveyor and also as a spy to report back on French troop strength and other items of interest to the British. So the spying and land surveying went hand in hand.
What many people don’t know is that Washington’s tract surveys of Midwest territories were used later as payment to officers and men of the Continental Army in lieu of currency as there was not money to pay the army.
The tracts of land given out by George Washington to persons of the Continental Army still exist in inheritance records on the eastern seaboard and are used by some genealogists to trace family migrations from east to west and with great success.
Sorry don’t believe in astrology at all. In fact it is a proven fraud.
A professor handed out to his class a single sheet of paper based on the Zodiac signs. One student for example would get a sheet of Aquarius, another for Capricorn and so on to each student based on their self identification with the Zodiac symbols.
After the students were given a time to review all the material on the zodiac sheet of paper that had been given to them, he asked them for their thoughts. Every student declared that the zodiac sheet of paper given to them was an incredible description of their life and some claimed that nothing else could be closer to the truth about their behavior and character.
The professor then asked each student to exchange the zodiac papers with their neighbor and then asked to read over it again. To everyone’s surprise, the sheet of paper taken in exchange was identical to the previous one regardless of what zodiac name was written at the top.
My distant relatives were surveyors too, one surveyed with him, co-owned property called the burning springs tract and had served in the French and Indian war under his command. As I recall reading about that bunch there was a widowed woman, a cousin I suppose, who owned a cave and mill and made gunpowder and supplied it to the continentals and militia, once riding all the way from what is now WV to coastal VA to smuggle it when no men could be spared for the journey.
I think that is a crock.
In 1755, Washington was the senior American aide to British General Edward Braddock.
Once while as a surveyor for the British, I forget which tribe of Indians, but Washington and the crew he was with were attacked. Many years later the chief of that tribe meet with Washington, and told him that he sent 5 or 6 of his best warriors to kill him (Washington), but they couldn't, and that their was some kind of aura protecting him, The chief said he seen it himself.
Not to mention during the different battles with the British. In the different British journals, story after story, shots fired, but George was still standing.
Google George Washington master spy. It was a great presentation in my Masonic lodge
Washington’s great grand parents were my great great great etc grand parents. On my father’s side.
It has long been an open secret that one of Washington’s greatest talents was as a spymaster. He was the kind of leader who, while not brilliant in any particular specialized area, had the knack to surround himself with brilliant subordinates and peers.
The full extent of his spy rings have never been divulged, likely because he had several in the British nobility, and perhaps even in the royal family.
Only one of them, Nathan Hale, was ever captured, and it was remarked that Washington must have had a bad hangover on the day he selected Hale for that job, because Hale was a lousy spy.
It’s the season, so here is Geo. Washington’s eggnog recipe.
Eggnog, George Washington’s
Blend
1 Pint Brandy
1/2 Pint Rye Whiskey
1/4 Pint Rum
1/4 Pint sherry
1-1/2 Cups Sugar
1 Quart Cream
1 Quart Milk
12 Eggs
My mother’s first cousin was a 3-star Marine Corps General and his nephew in admiration of him became a genealogist who researched in great detail the land tract records that Washington had surveyed and in so doing uncovered a large part of our family genealogy. He was able to show how so many people were actually related with no idea that they were related. For example, he was able to show how two members of his high school basketball team were related through a common great grandfather. so the connection was pretty close!
It’s sad that so many people today do not know their family history very well and therefore their heritage. To be sure there are blacksheep in families too; uncles or cousins that served time or were town drunks etc. But usually there are examples of great family pride as well such as my mother’s first cousin. But family history is important to medicine and leads to knowing about one’s heritage which is important to self-identification and awareness.
Myself, I was born in Virginia with English, Scot, Irish Americans and also from a Mohican princess. I learned that many Americans, many more than one would think, are descended from a mix with native tribes. Many early American men took native wives as European descended women were not plentiful and some were not capable of withstanding the harsh conditions of settlements in new territories.
I grew up near Mt. Vernon, Virginia. From childhood I was steeped in American history and would listen to the DAR and Mt. Vernon Historical Society volunteers at Mt. Vernon describe the life of George and Martha Washington there. I admired how educated and diligent the people at the historical societies in the area were. I also lived for a time further north in Virginia just outside Alexandria in one of George Mason’s old hunting lodges! It had been bought and restored by a dentist.
It was a shock when I became an adult and realized that many Americans do not have knowledge of American history and their heritage. I believe this lack of awareness is a big factor in why many people do not defend their traditional values. But thank God many do!
Awareness of our heritage is vital to our children. It calms them and settles them with dignity so they can better defend the idea of America against daily relentless attacks on its values. American History should be required for study in every high school. I’ve heard Common Core turns our heritage on its head and deprives American students of an awareness of the greatness of America’s founding and therefore robs them of having pride of who and where they are.
The show is filmed in my home state of Virginia.
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