Which evidence in the passage supports the idea that
revolutionaries tricked a British soldier?
They took the soldier to an American General
Clinton instead of the British General Clinton.
Clinton gave the silver ball to Daniel Taylor, a young
officer, promising that Taylor would be promoted if he
got the message to Burgoyne. If he were captured, he was
to swallow the ball. Because it was made of silver, it could
not harm him.
Taylor had not gone far before several soldiers in red
uniforms stopped him. Believing he was in friendly
hands, he said he had a message from "General Clinton."
But what he didn't know was that the smiling soldiers
were Americans, wearing uniforms swiped from a British
ship. They took Taylor to a "General Clinton" who
happened to be an American general named George
Clinton.
-George Washington, Spymaster,
Thomas B. Allen
They stopped Taylor along his route to Burgoyne.
* Red uniforms were easy to come by for the
American soldiers.
O Taylor decided to deliver the message even though
doing so would be dangerous.
Answers
Answer:
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Explanation:
As we celebrate Thanksgiving weekend, a holiday first declared by George Washington’s presidential proclamation in 1789, it is worth remembering that deception played a pivotal role in America’s birth. Our shining city on the hill owes much to the dark arts. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and other Founding Fathers are remembered today as virtuous creators of a bold new democracy. But they were also cunning manipulators of their information environment—a side of the founding story that has often been neglected by history.
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George Washington’s inability to tell a lie is a lie. That old cherry-tree fable—in which young George admits to his father that he did, indeed, chop down the tree with his hatchet—was invented by a Washington biographer named Mason Locke Weems in 1806 to boost his book sales. In truth, Washington was an avid spymaster with a talent for deception that would remain unequaled by American presidents for the next 150 years. During the Revolutionary War, Washington was referred to by his own secret code number (711), made ready use of ciphers and invisible ink, developed an extensive