The Role Of Spying During The Revolutionary War

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Spying is a big deal during the Revolutionary War. If either side catches another side’s spy, they would hang the spy (spies were both female and male),so the spies have to very careful during the Revolutionary War to not get killed. A great spy during the Revolutionary War was James Armistead. He was qaa slave working for William Armistead. He convinced his master to let him join the army as a spy when General Lafayette came to the town. All the spies had to enlist in the British camp so they couldn 't enlist as American or British would find out about the spies. Communicate back then wasn’t the same as the 20th century. Now we have cell phones and telephones to call people. Back then they didn’t even have a good mail system to talk

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