Agent 355: Spying During The American Revolution

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Imagine this you are spying for the Americans during the American revolution then. BOOM! You wake up on the Prison ship HMS Jersey. All you see is blood and sickness. This is was Agent 355’s home when she was captured for spying. Agent 355 had interesting ways of spying during the American Revolution that eventually got her arrested.
General George Washington relied on spies, like Agent 355, to give him Information on British troop movements. Agent 355, who is assumed to be a woman, was recruited by the culper spy ring to help Washington. Agent 355 used many methods of getting the information. She used invisible ink, coded messages, and egg delivery. The egg delivery is where they use a substance to write a message on the under the egg’s shell

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