George Washington received that report, and his guards would narrowly avoid battling Birch’s dragoons a year later when the British attempted an abortive operation to apprehend Washington. Dragons Coll Burch” among the British regiments stationed on Long Island. Benjamin Tallmadge an intelligence report from Setauket, N.Y., on Feb. Patriot spy Abraham Woodhull (alias Samuel Culper) wrote Maj. In my opinion, one of the most interesting stories that began in an earlier volume of the Papers of George Washington is the career of Samuel Birch, a British officer who first appears in volume 20 of the Revolutionary War Series. Zvengrowski, Assistant EditorĭecemPassport for Cato Ramsay, one of the many enslaved individuals that Birch helped free. TOPICS: 50 Years of Editing, Editor’s Perspective, Espionage, George Washington, GW’s Views, Revolutionary War, Short Biography, Slaveryīy Jeffrey L.
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