Spies and Spycraft - Central Library
Schedule
Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
174 S Main St, Harrisonburg, VA 22801-3629, United States | Harrisonburg, VA
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“Washington did not really outfight the British, he simply outspied us.” That’s what London newspapers reported after the defeat of the British Army. So what was the intelligence that General Washington collected? Where did it come from? Who were his spies? And how do we know about these shadowy figures 250 years later?Join Amanda A. Ohlke, Director of Adult Education at the International Spy Museum, for a discussion of spies from the members of the Culper Ring, made famous by the television series Turn, to James Lafayette, an enslaved African American who worked with the Marquis de Lafayette to outwit the British General Cornwallis.
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