James Rivington
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James Rivington was an English-born American journalist who published a Loyalist newspaper in the American colonies called Rivington's Gazette. He was driven out of New York by the Sons of Liberty, bu
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Title page of Alexander Hamilton's A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress, printed by Rivington in 1774
John André
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Major John André was a British Army officer who served as the head of Britain's intelligence operations during the American War for Independence. In September 1780, André negotiated with Continental A
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…Gazette, which he changed on 13 December 1777 to The Royal Gazette with the legend "Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty." On the day that Major John André was taken prisoner, his poem "Cow Chase" was published by Rivington. Rivington, who opened a drug shop, would have been the last New Yorker suspected…
Portrait by George Engleheart, 1772–1780
The location where André and Arnold plotted to surrender West Point to the British. It is located south of Haverstraw, New York, and forms part of the modern-day Hook Mountain State Park.
The Capture of Major Andre by Asher Durand, 1833 (Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts)
The Joshua Hett Smith House (since demolished) in 1909