ARIEL BRADLEY, SPY FOR GENERAL WASHINGTON By: Lynda Durrant
Author Self-Published
September 2013
On Sale: September 1, 2013
Featuring: Ariel Bradley
56 pages ISBN: 0983290482 EAN: 9780983290483 Paperback Add to Wish List
This book is based on a true event, the real life adventure of nine year-old Ariel Bradley. It reveals the anxiety of the Americans, who a battle in the first months of the Revolutionary War. It also shows George Washingtonβs keen sense of humor and his wily, perceptive view of his British adversaries.
Ariel Bradley is Washingtonβs boy spy who pretends to be a country bumpkin (a βJohnny Rawβ). He βstumblesβ into General Howeβs camp βlooking for the millβ his father has sent him in search of. In reality, he is assessing the strength and numbers of the British and their Hessian (German) allies. After he is sent on his way by the unsuspecting English, he reports this to General Washington and his staff. This information proves key in what became known as the Battle of White Plains.
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