The Spy Map and General Washington
It is December 1776. The Declaration of Independence was signed five months ago and Britain has sent troops to quell the rebellious Colonials. There have been skirmishes, with the British remaining victorious. It is bitterly cold, the colonial troops are hungry, poorly clothed and ill-equipped, unpaid, and ready to return home. General Washington receives timely information from a “very intelligent young gentleman” and formulates a plan. Using the spy’s map, accompanying letter, and the official Revolutionary War battle map, discover what General Washington learned and trace his path in this very important battle of the Revolutionary War.
Baltimore, Dec. 31, 1776. This morning Congress received the following letter from General Washington. Head-Quarters, Nowtown, 27th Dec. 1776. Sir I have the pleasure of congratulating you upon the success of an enterprize, which I had formed against a detachment of the enemy lying in Tenon, and which was executed yesterday morning. An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera, American Memory
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George Washington to the Continental Congress Governing Committee, January 1, 1777, George Washington Papers, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(gw060356))
George Washington to Continental Congress, January 1, 1777, George Washington Papers, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(gw060355))
The provinces of New York and New Jersey; with part of Pensilvania, and the Province of Quebec. Drawn by Major Holland, Surveyor General, of the Northern District in America. Corrected and improved, from the original materials, by Governr. Pownall, Member of Parliament, 1776. The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789, Map Collections, American Memory - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3800.ar104500
John Cadwalader to George Washington, Dec. 31, 1776, George Washington Papers, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw4&fileName=gwpage039.db&recNum=463
Plan of Princeton, Dec. 31, 1776, John Cadwalader, Map Collections, American Memory -http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3814p.ct000076
Plan of the operations of General Washington against the King's troops in New Jersey, from the 26th of December 1776 to the 3d of January 1777. Map Collections, American Memory - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3811s.ct000061
George Washington to Continental Congress, January 5, 1777, George Washington Papers, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(gw060360))
George Washington to William Heath, January 5, 1777, George Washington Papers, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(gw060362))
George Washington to William Putnam, January 5, 1777, George Washington Papers, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(gw060361))
George Washington to Charles Cornwallis, January 8, 1777, George Washington Papers, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(gw060370))
Great news from New York [Cut]. Salem, January 6, 1777. At half past one o'clock on Saturday last arrived an express from Governor Trumbull, of Connecticut, to the Council of this State, with the following most agreeable and important intelligence, An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera, American Memory
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[A photostatic (positive) reproduction of a portion of the pictorial review section of the Newark Sunday Call of December 27, 1931, showing the famous painting of Washington crossing the Delaware River, and a sketch by a Newark Sunday Call artist, An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+10006300))
Congress received the following intelligence from the Council of Safety, as coming from "an officer of distinction in the army" : published by order of Congresss [sic] / [signed by] Charles Thomson, Sec'ry. Baltimore : Printed by John Dunlap, [1], An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+00000200))
George Washington to Pennsylvania Safety Council, January 8, 1777, George Washington Papers, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(gw060371))
Princeton University, Panoramic Photographs, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/pan:@FIELD(SUBJ+@band(+Princeton+University++Buildings++))
Properties of the Delaware River Improvement Company on Morrisville Island, Pa. opposite Trenton, N.J., 1900, Panoramic Maps, American Memory - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3824m.pm008093
“Timeline: The American Revolution,1776,” Special Presentation, George Washington Papers, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/1776.html
“Timeline: The American Revolution, 1777,” Special Presentation, George Washington Papers, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/1777.html