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1 de mar. de 2022 · Shippen outlived her husband by three years, dying in 1804 at the age of 44. She kept the lock of John André’s hair until her death. Ironically, Peggy Shippen’s gender protected her for centuries. Many wrote off the witty young wife of Benedict Arnold, assuming she could not possibly have aided her husband’s treason.
Peggy was the youngest of the Shippen family daughters, and a favorite from a very young age. She was educated in all of the womanly arts, like needlework, dancing, and music, but also displayed an early passion for following news and politics. When the American rebellion began in 1775, Edward Shippen chose to remain neutral, but the fervent ...
How We Became America: The Untold Story. Who Was Peggy Shippen: The "It Girl" Spy. Watch on. View or download this video on Vimeo. American Battlefield Trust. Spies: Their names became a by word for betrayal. They were tortured. Hanged. And their bodies strung up in public.
24 de mar. de 2015 · On an early autumn morning in 1780, a lovely young woman named Peggy Shippen seemed to go stark raving mad. Her husband, a hero of the American Revolution named Benedict Arnold, had just fled to the enemy, abandoning her in a tidy country estate in New York's Hudson Highlands. Left alone to answer for the treason, she screamed and wailed and ...
When the British Army occupied Philadelphia, Peggy Shippen made friends with Major John André. They wrote letters back and forth to each other after André left Philadelphia. [2] In 1779, when she was nineteen years old, Peggy Shippen married Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army. Later, Arnold decided to defect, or change sides ...
1 de abr. de 2019 · Peggy Shippen met alone with Joseph Stansbury during these treacherous July 1779 negotiations as Benedict Arnold showed the British what he was willing to give in exchange for a red uniform and at least £10,000. More months dragged by before Washington could spare general officers to reconvene Arnold’s court-martial.
Peggy Shippen: Born into a renowned Philadelphia family, the beautiful and politically astute Margaret “Peggy” Shippen was surrounded by people of influence at a young age. In 1777, the 17-year-old began a long friendship with British Major John André, Adjutant General and intelligence chief to British Commanding General Sir Henry Clinton.
