Brian Kilmeade - George Washington's Secret Six

Washington on, 80–82, 94–96, 111, 176–77, 206–7

Westchester delivery to Tallmadge by, 193–96

Townsend, Robert, Jr., 211–12, 220

Townsend, Samuel, xvii, 70–74, 79

arrest of, 74

British occupation of home of, 75–76, 110, 152, 206

Townsend, Samuel, Jr., 71

Townsend, Sarah, 70, 72

Townsend, Solomon, 71, 74, 77, 211

Townsend, William, 71, 212

Townsend family, xvi–xvii, 70, 71–72, 76–77, 110, 205, 220, 222

Treaty of Paris, 16, 199

Trenton, N.J., 27, 29, 126

Trumbull, Jonathan, 37

Tryon, William, 99, 106

Underhill, Amos, 42, 46, 57

in Culper Ring, 101–2, 110

Underhill, Mary Woodhull, 42, 46, 48, 66

Valley Forge, Pa., 34, 40, 131

Van Wart, Isaac, 158–60, 211

Villefranche, Chevalier de, 142

Virginia, 8, 18, 28, 34, 58, 181, 185, 189–90, 203

Vulture, HMS, 153–56, 168, 177

Wallabout Bay, 178

Washington, George, 1, 3, 38, 43–44, 56, 73, 79, 89, 91, 104, 145, 148, 200–201, 212, 215

Arnold and, 133, 137–38, 141–42, 146, 152–53, 163–73, 179–81

and Battle of Trenton, 29–31

as commander in chief of Continental Army, 18

counterintelligence by, 125–26

decision not to attack New York, 124–26, 182–83

departure for Mount Vernon by, 203–4

departure from Massachusetts by, 4

as first president, 205

in French and Indian War, 15–16

Hale and, 19–20, 23–27, 58

headquarters of, 124

Honeyman’s spying and, 28–31

invisible ink and, 62–63, 65

and Jamaica Pass mishap, 9–10

Lafayette and, 121

letters of, 28–29

Long Island attack reconsidered by, 182–83

Long Island toured by, 205–6

march to New York by, 6

New York City as goal of, 20, 85, 117, 119, 124, 147, 188, 191, 193–96

New York defended by, 7–9, 11–12

Pennsylvania campaign of, 34

return to New York City by, 199, 201–3

at Second Continental Congress, 18

Simcoe’s failed attempt to capture, 110

speed of Culper operations criticized by, 109–12, 120, 122

spy network of, xv–xvi, xviii, 15, 19–20, 27, 30–31, 33–35, 40, 49–52, 57, 59, 60, 67, 80–83, 94–97, 99–100, 101–2, 107, 109, 114, 115–16, 135, 141, 186, 193–96, 216, 219, 222, 223

on Townsend, 80–82, 84–86, 111, 176–77, 206–7

in Yorktown, 189–91

Washington, John, 28

Washington, Samuel, 28

Westchester County, N.Y., 193–96

West Indies, 83, 121, 129, 195

Westminster Abbey, 172

West Point, xv, 94, 137–38, 142, 146, 149, 152–56, 160–61, 164–65, 175

Wethersfield, Conn., 36–37

White Plains, Battle of, 38

White Plains, N.Y., 51, 156

Whitestone, 124

Williams, David, 158–60, 210

Wolsey, John, 65–66

Woodhull, Abraham, xvii, 41–42, 44–46, 48, 75, 91, 93, 104, 110, 135, 138, 197–98, 206, 216

anxieties of, 59–61, 64–66, 102–3, 111–12, 123

Brewster recruited by, 55–58

British officers quartered in home of, 64–65

invisible ink and, 62–67

postwar life of, 212–13

on replacement spies, 116

Roe recruited by, 56–58

Simcoe’s pursuit of, 66–67

Tallmadge and, 89, 114, 122, 124, 147–49, 183, 186, 192, 198, 222

Tallmadge’s recruitment of, 49–53, 222

on Townsend, 177–78, 186

Townsend and, 83, 89, 96, 100–103, 187–88

Townsend recruited by, 77–80

on Washington’s revocation, 122

Woodhull, Adam, 41–42

Woodhull, Lydia Terry, 212

Woodhull, Margaret Smith, 212

Woodhull, Mary, see Underhill, Mary Woodhull

Woodhull, Mary Smith, 212

Woodhull, Nathaniel, 10, 37, 41, 74–75

Woodhull, Richard V. (brother), 41–42

Woodhull, Richard W. (father), 66–67, 75, 76, 212

Woodhull, Susannah, 42, 46, 50

Woodhull family, 70

Yale College, 20–22, 35, 36, 128, 169

Yorktown, Battle of, 188–91, 220

captured British codebook in, xv, 189–90

Young, Israel, 106