A handwritten pass dated Sept. 20, 1780, that Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold scrawled for Joshua Smith and John Anderson — AKA John Andre, a British spy, which allowed them to pass by guards, from the New ...

Exhibit Details Benedict Arnold’s Betrayal and the Capture of Major André It was a very much a “treason of the blackest dye” (as described in General Nathanael Greene’s orderly book that will be on ...

It is understandable that, by the fall of 1775, less than a year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, many of the citizens of Lancaster were not too pleased to find themselves having ...

“I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode,” André, 29, told his American captors after recoiling at the sight of the gallows, a report by witness James Thacher said. He had hoped to be shot ...