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The Unfortunate Death of Major André. William Hamilton (1751-1801) delin, John Goldar (1729-1795) sculp. Mixed method, 1783. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-52. British Major John André was one of the most famous prisoners of the Revolutionary War. A favorite of British General Sir Henry Clinton, the handsome young major was also popular ...
7 de mar. de 2024 · Fluminense pode ter ‘versão 2024' que esperava: sem André. Após negar propostas de gigantes europeus para ficar no Fluminense e conquistar o título da Libertadores, André seguiu sendo alvo do futebol do Velho Continente. O Tricolor se preparou para perdê-lo na janela de transferências em janeiro, o que acabou não acontecendo.
John André: Officer, Gentleman…and Spymaster. John André: John André was fluent in four languages and a gifted writer and poet. At the age of nineteen, he inherited his father’s fortune, and two years later bought a military commission as a lieutenant in the British Army. Sent to America in 1774, André became friend, confidant, and ...
13 de jun. de 2022 · John André was a British officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War and was involved in Arnold’s Treason — a plot devised by Benedict Arnold to turn over West Point to the British. In 1774, André was sent to serve in Canada, where he was captured by American forces on November 2, 1775, during the Siege of Fort St. John , an early battle fought during the American Invasion of ...
23 de nov. de 2019 · 5 – Major John André Monument – Tappan, NY . Major John André had personally requested of George Washington to be executed by a firing squad, which was befitting of a soldier that was to be put to death; however, Washington fully intended to have André hanged at the gallows as a spy (similar to how school teacher Nathan Hale was hanged ...
13 de ago. de 2020 · John André. In the nave of Westminster Abbey there is a monument to Major John Andre, executed as a spy by the Americans in 1780. Designed by Robert Adam and carried out by Peter Mathias Van Gelder it was erected in 1782 at the expense of King George III. It shows a mourning figure of Britannia with a lion, seated on the top of a sarcophagus.
14 de ago. de 2018 · [6]Sargent, The life and career of Major John André, 397. [7]John Graves Simcoe, Simcoe’s military journal: a history of the operations of a partisan corps, called the Queen’s Rangers, commanded by Lieut. Col. J.G. Simcoe, during the war of the American Revolution; now first published, with a memoir of the author and other additions (New York: Bartlett & Welford.1844), 292.
