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Spies of Revolutionary Connecticut:: From Benedict Arnold to Nathan Hale
Covert intelligence played a critical role in the American Revolution. Connecticut produced an extraordinary number of spies on both sides of the conflict, from the infamous traitor and Norwich-born Benedict Arnold to Patriot Nathan Hale, executed by the British for espionage. Spying during the Revolution entailed coded messages, early submarines with the first exploding torpedoes and the penalty of death for those caught in the act. Despite the risk, some spies even played both sides as double agents, such as Edward Bancroft, who was never caught. With stories of Silas Deane, Ethan Allen, Thomas Knowlton, the Culper Spy Ring and others, author Mark Allen Baker navigates the intrigues, dangers and double crosses of Connecticut's most legendary Revolutionary spies.
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Spies of Revolutionary Connecticut:: From Benedict Arnold to Nathan Hale
Covert intelligence played a critical role in the American Revolution. Connecticut produced an extraordinary number of spies on both sides of the conflict, from the infamous traitor and Norwich-born Benedict Arnold to Patriot Nathan Hale, executed by the British for espionage. Spying during the Revolution entailed coded messages, early submarines with the first exploding torpedoes and the penalty of death for those caught in the act. Despite the risk, some spies even played both sides as double agents, such as Edward Bancroft, who was never caught. With stories of Silas Deane, Ethan Allen, Thomas Knowlton, the Culper Spy Ring and others, author Mark Allen Baker navigates the intrigues, dangers and double crosses of Connecticut's most legendary Revolutionary spies.
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Spies of Revolutionary Connecticut:: From Benedict Arnold to Nathan Hale

Spies of Revolutionary Connecticut:: From Benedict Arnold to Nathan Hale

by Mark Allen Baker
Spies of Revolutionary Connecticut:: From Benedict Arnold to Nathan Hale
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Spies of Revolutionary Connecticut:: From Benedict Arnold to Nathan Hale

Spies of Revolutionary Connecticut:: From Benedict Arnold to Nathan Hale

by Mark Allen Baker

Overview

Covert intelligence played a critical role in the American Revolution. Connecticut produced an extraordinary number of spies on both sides of the conflict, from the infamous traitor and Norwich-born Benedict Arnold to Patriot Nathan Hale, executed by the British for espionage. Spying during the Revolution entailed coded messages, early submarines with the first exploding torpedoes and the penalty of death for those caught in the act. Despite the risk, some spies even played both sides as double agents, such as Edward Bancroft, who was never caught. With stories of Silas Deane, Ethan Allen, Thomas Knowlton, the Culper Spy Ring and others, author Mark Allen Baker navigates the intrigues, dangers and double crosses of Connecticut's most legendary Revolutionary spies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781626194076
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 02/11/2014
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Mark Allen Baker is a former business executive (General Electric/Genigraphics Corporation, assistant to the president and CEO), author (fifteen books), historian and writer (over two hundred articles). A graduate of the State University of New York, with postgraduate work completed at MIT, RIT and George Washington University, his expertise has been referenced in numerous periodicals, including USA Today, Sports Illustrated and Money magazine. Following his 1997 book, Goldmine's Price Guide to Rock & Roll Memorabilia, he appeared as a co-host on the VH-1 series Rock Collectors. Baker has also been a featured speaker at many events, including the Hemingway Days Festival and Writers Conference in Key West, Florida. He may also be familiar to some as the former co-owner of Bleachers Restaurant & Sports Bar (Liverpool, New York). Acting as a historian for the International Boxing Hall of Fame, Baker is the only individual who has been a volunteer, chairperson and sponsor of an Induction Weekend event, both inside and outside the village of Canastota. He has also published artwork, articles and books related to the museum. Baker turns his attention to the hardwood for a book about basketball to be published in the fall of 2010.

Table of Contents

Preface 9

Acknowledgements 11

Introduction: Every Picture Tells a Story 13

I Probable Cause

1 In Pursuit of Freedom: The American Revolution in Connecticut 19

II Spies Like Us

2 The Spy 35

3 A Call for Administration and Recruits 47

III Connecticut's Spies of the Revolution

4 Silas Deane 61

5 Ethan Allen 70

6 Thomas Knowlton 77

7 Benedict Arnold 83

8 Edward Bancroft 91

9 David Bushnell and Ezra Lee 95

10 Enoch Crosby 104

11 Nathan Hale 111

IV Tallmadge's Lattice

12 The Culper Ring 121

Notes 133

Bibliography 147

Index 153

About the Author 157

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