The Tragedy of the Fortifications

Major andrea snuck behind enemy lines to pick up plans for the fort. Two days later he was captured in civilian clothes, trying to make his way back to new york city. Arnold learned of andrea's capture literally minutes before washington was due to arrive. Washington offered to hand over andrea in exchange for arnold but Henry clinton refused. The carismatic and charming andrea soon endeared himself to his captors. influential men on both sides tried to get him spared, or at least shot. But washington refused to yield to sentimentality,. and he had andrea hanged on october second as a spy. Arnold, meanwhile, was commissioned as a