Kidnapping the Enemy: The Special Operations to Capture Generals Charles Lee and Richard Prescott

The Daring Raid to Kidnap a British General in Order to Gain Freedom for the Highest Ranking Continental Officer Captured During the American Revolution
On the night of December 12, 1776, while on a reconnaissance mission in New Jersey, Lieutenant Colonel William Harcourt and Cornet Banastre Tarleton of the British dragoons learned from Loyalist informers that Major General Charles Lee, the second—in—command in the Continental army behind only George Washington, was staying at a tavern at ne...