[randomhero97]

ping-a-ling

[Steelerfan]

Book called “Washington’s Spies” (original isn’t it) has a good deal of detail of his efforts to get information concerning NY. Intersting book and a fairly quick read.

[unkus]

Thank you for posting this good bit of our history.

[sr4402]

Great Article. During the Winter, preachers wouldn’t brave the fierce winters, so General Washington did the job. He was a true leader in fashion of his master.

[Don Corleone]

Did they use Waterboarding????/ /snic

[BGHater]

Rev Ping.

Nothing ‘new’, but it’s about the Man.

[MattinNJ]

No. 355 would make a good movie.

[afraidfortherepublic]

A woman in Philadelphia owned the home where the British gathered to plan a surprise attack at Valley Forge, when Washington seemed most vulnerable. She overheard every word. The next morning, she told her husband she needed more flour--even though she had a kitchen full already--and headed toward a mill near Valley Forge to warn the Continental Army.

I read this story in Smithsonian Magazine several years ago. There they said that she was a Quaker whose oldest son had run away and joined Washington's Army. The British had commandeered her home as HQ and they met around her dining room table to plot their strategy after the family had retired to their quarters upstairs.

There was a tiny hole in the floor and she would lie there with her ear to the hole. She then wrote down the British plans in tiny script on a piece of muslin which she fashioned into a button. She sewed the button to the clothes of her younger son and she sent him to the mill for more flour the next morning. He managed to escape detection and went right to Washington's HQ where he clipped the button from his clothes. Washington cut the stitches holding it together and revealed the tiny script inside detailing the British plan of attack.