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Intelligence and Espionage


Arndt, Karl, editor. "The American Revolution in German ..." Historical New Hampshire, 32 (Winter 1977), pp. 189-197.

Arner, Robert D. "The Death of Major André: Some Eighteenth-Century Views." Early American Literature, 9 (Spring 1976), pp. 52-67.

Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. "Andre: A Hundred and Fifty Years Ago." Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, 12 (April 1931), pp. 160-164.

Bakeless, John. Turncoats, Traitors and Heroes. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1960.

Bemis, Samuel F. "British Secret Service and the French-American Alliance." American Historical Review, 29 (April 1924), pp. 474-495.

Benjamin, William Evarts, editor. "Sir Henry Clinton's Original Secret Record of Private Daily Intelligence: Unpublished Letter from W. Heron to Sir Henry Clinton." Magazine of American History, 20 (October 1888), pp. 329-332.

Bennett, Gordon, editor. "Trial of Joshua Hett Smith, For Complicity in the Conspiracy of Benedict Arnold and Major Andre." Historical Magazine, Supplements 1-5 (1866), pp. 1-5, 33-38, 65-73, 97-105, 129-138.

Benson, Egbert. Vindication of the captors of Major André. 1817. ed Edition, New York: J. Sabin, 1865.

Biddle, Charles J. "General Washington and Major Andre." Historical Magazine, 1 (July 1857), pp. 193-205.

Burnett, Edmund Cody. "Ciphers of the Revolutionary Period." American Historical Review, 22 (January 1917), pp. 329-334.

Butterfield, Lyman H. "Psychological Warfare in 1776: The Jefferson-Franklin Plan to Cause Hessian Desertion."

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 94 (June 1950), pp. 233-241.

Campbell, Charles A. "Smith's House at Haverstraw, N.Y.: Washington's Headquarters." Magazine of American History, 5 (July 1880), pp. 21-33.

-----. "Bibliography of Major André." Magazine of American History, 8 (January 1882), pp. 61-72.

Crary, Catherine S. "The Tory and the Spy: The Double Life of James Rivington." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 16 (January 1959), pp. 61-72.

Currey, Cecil B. Code number 72/Ben Franklin; patriot or spy? Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972.

Darrach, Henry. "Lydia Darragh, One of the Heroines of the Revolution." Publications of the City History Society of Philadelphia, 1 (1916), pp. 379-403.

Dawson, Henry B., editor. "Capture of Major Andre, Statements of Williams and Van Wart." Historical Magazine, 9 (June 1865), pp. 177-180.

Deane, James E. "Enoch Crosby Not a Myth." Magazine of American History, 18 (July 1887), pp. 73-75.

Delancey, Edward F., editor. "Sir Henry Clinton's Original Secret Record of Private Daily Intelligence." Magazine of American History, 10 (1883), pp. 327-342, 409-419, 497-507; 11 (1884), pp. 53-70, 156-167, 247-257, 342-351, 433-444, 533-544; 12 (1884), pp. 72-79, 162-175.

Dykman, J. O. "The Last Twelve Days of Major John André." Magazine of American History, 21 (June 1889), pp. 494-498; 22 (July, August 1889), pp. 49-57, 148-157.

Ellis, K. L. "British Communications and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century." Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 31 (November 1958), pp. 159-167.

Flexner, James T. The Traitor and the Spy, Benedict Arnold and John Andre. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1953.

Ford, Corey. A Peculiar Service. Boston: Little, 1965.

H., C., editor. "Capture of Andre." Historical Magazine, 1 (October 1857), pp. 293-295.

Hall, Charles S. Benjamin Tallmadge: Revolutionary Soldier and American Businessman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943.

Hatfield, Guy. "Harvey Birch and the Myth of Enoch Crosby." Magazine of American History, 17 (May 1887), pp. 431-433.

-----. "Harvey Birch Not Enoch Crosby." Magazine of American History, 18 (October 1887), p. 341.

Holloway, Charlotte Molyneux. "The First Sacrifice of the Revolution. Nathan Hale, The Patriot Martyr Spy." Connecticut Magazine, 6 (May-June 1900), pp. 224-236.

Johnston, Henry P. "The Secret Service of the Revolution." Magazine of American History, 8 (February 1882), pp. 95-105.

-----. "Colonel Varick and Arnold's Treason." Magazine of American History, 8 (November 1882), pp. 717-733.

Kahn, David. "Washington's New York Spy Net." Military History, 1 (December 1984), pp. 10, 56-57, 62.

Kaplan, Roger. "The Hidden War: British Intelligence Operations during the American Revolution." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 47 (January 1990), pp. 115-138.

Lawson, John L. "The 'Remarkable Mystery' of James Rivington, 'Spy'." Journalism Quarterly, 35 (1958), pp. 316-323, 394.

Leffman, Henry. "Notes on the Secret Service of the Revolutionary Army Operating in the Neighborhood of Philadelphia." Publications of the City History Society of Philadelphia, 1 (1910), pp. 165-172.

Lopez, Claude-Ann. "The Man Who Frightened Franklin." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 106 (October 1982), pp. 515-526.

Lossing, Benson J. The Two Spies: Nathan Hale and John André. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1886.

Maguire, J. Robert. "The British Secret Service and the Attempt to Kidnap General Jacob Bayley of Newbury, Vermont, 1782." Vermont History, 44 (Summer 1976), pp. 141-167.

Moore, George H. The Treason of Charles Lee: Major General, Second in Command in the American Army of the Revolution. New York: Scribner, 1860.

Norwood, Mary E., editor. "Arnold The Traitor, and André The Sufferer: Correspondence Between Josiah Quincy, Jared Sparks and Benjamin Tallmadge." Magazine of American History, 3 (December 1879), pp. 747-759.

O'Dea, Anna, and Samuel A. Pleasants. "The Case of John Honeyman: Mute Evidence." New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings, 84 (July 1966), pp. 174-181.

Paltsits, Victor Hugo. "The Use of Invisible Ink for Secret Writing during the American Revolution." New York Public Library Bulletin, 39 (May 1935), pp. 361-364.

Patrick, Louise S. "Secret Service of the American Revolution." Connecticut Magazine, 11 (Summer 1907), pp. 265-274.

Paulding, John. "The Capture of Andre." Historical Magazine, 1 (November 1857), pp. 331-336.

Pemberton, Ian C. "The British Secret Service in the Champlain Valley During the Haldimand Negotiations, 1780-1783." Vermont History, 44 (Summer 1976), pp. 129-140.

Pennypacker, Morton. George Washington's Spies on Long Island and in New York. Brooklyn: Long Island Historical Society, 1939.

-----. "Two Spies: Nathan Hale and Robert Townsend." Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, 12 (April 1931), pp. 122-128.

Pickering, James H., editor. "Enoch Crosby, Secret Agent of the Neutral Ground: His Own Story." New York History, 47 (January 1966), pp. 51-73.

Reuter, Frank T. "'Petty Spy' or Effective Diplomat: The Role of George Beckwith." Journal of the Early Republic, 10 (Winter 1990), pp. 471-492.

Roche, John F. "Was Joseph Reed Disloyal?" William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 8 (July 1951), pp. 406-417.

Salmon, John. "'A Mission of the most secret and important kind': James Lafayette and American Espionage in 1781." Virginia Cavalcade, 31 (Autumn 1981), pp. 78-85.

Samuelson, Nancy B. "Revolutionary War Women and the Second Oldest Profession." Minerva, 7 (Summer 1989), pp. 16-25.

Scott, Kenneth. "New Hampshire Tory Counterfeiters Operating from New York City." New-York Historical Society Quarterly, 34 (January 1950), pp. 31-57.

Seed, Geoffrey. "A British Spy in Philadelphia 1775-1777." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 85 (January 1961), pp. 3-37.

Smith, Joshua Hett. An Authentic Narrative of the causes which Led to the Death of Major Andre, Adjutant-General of His Majesty's Forces in North America. London: Mathews and Leigh, 1808.

Stevens, John Austin. "The Seventy-Six Stone House at Tappan." Magazine of American History, 3 (December 1879), pp. 743-746.

Stockbridge, J. C. "The Case of Major Andre." Magazine of American History, 3 (December 1879), pp. 739-742.

Stone, William L. "Schuyler's Faithful Spy: An Incident in the Burgoyne Campaign." Magazine of American History, 2 (July 1878), pp. 414-419.

"The Traitors of the Revolution." Historical Magazine, 9 (March 1865), pp. 89-90.

Van Doren, Carl. Secret History of the American Revolution. New York: Viking Press, 1941.

Walker, Warren S. "The Prototype of Harvey Birch." New York History, 37 (October 1956), pp. pp. 399-413.

Whiting, John. "A Letter of Lieut. John Whiting." Edited by Samuel F. McCleary. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 27 (June 1892), pp. 449-454. [2d Ser., Vol. 7.]

Wilcox, C. DeW. "The Ethics of Major André's Mission." Magazine of History, 21 (July 1915), pp. 40-50.

Wilson, Lavalette. "André's Landing-Place at Haverstraw: A Mooted Question Settled." Magazine of American History, 13 (February 1885), pp. 173-176.

-----. "Andre and His Landing Place." Magazine of History, 12 (December 1910), pp. 331-335.


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