Spies and Spycraft of the American Revolution

“Washington did not really outfight the British, he simply outspied us.” That’s what London newspapers reported after the defeat of the British Army. So what was the intelligence that General Washington collected? Where did it come from? Who were his spies? And how do we know about these shadowy figures 250 years later?

Join Amanda A. Ohlke, Director of Adult Education at the International Spy Museum, for a discussion of spies from the members of the Culper Ring, made famous by the television series Turn, to James Lafayette, an enslaved African Ameri