that are brought to springfield, new jersey, to, for the anticipated attack on staten island. there would be no other reason to bring the boats there, because they weren t going to virginia. so he s gone and convinced the british that there s going to be an attack on staten island. and then the eventual result is the fact that his army and the french army are able to move across new jersey without being attacked, and as i m sure most of you are aware, they make it down to virginia and corn wallace surrenders at yorktown. okay? that gives you pretty much of a run-through on the spycraft that was used during the american revolution. there s many more codes and ciphers. they are in the book. and at this point, i would like to open it up to some questions. and hopefully i have some answers. we have one back there. wait for the mike, please. a comment on nathan haile? nathan haile was absolutely a very poor spy. i don t know if you re familiar with what s been found out. briti
there is a british officer, who was wounded very badly at the battle of rinsed and. he was not expected to live. asked for permission to have a british officer, out of new brunswick to take his last will and testament. they insisted it had to be done at night. but putnam did is an all the empty houses, he put candles to make them look like they were occupied. he then had his 50 soldiers march past the house where the last will and testament was being taken. sometimes, one or two at a time, sometimes six at a time, sometimes a dozen, sometimes all 50. when the british officer goes back to brunswick, he reports that putnam is at princeton with 4000 soldiers. [laughter] instead of the 50 that he really had. fake reports for spies. washington like to make up fake reports and send them into british headquarters headquarters here in new york. he did so well that after the battle of brandywine in pennsylvania, the british army captured an original american report but were absolutely