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While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, ...
Peggy Shippen, an investigator with the Human Rights Bureau, says in a report filed this week that there is reasonable cause to believe that county officials engaged in retaliation and unlawful ...
Last year, Allison Pataki, who has previously written fictionalized lives of queens (Empress Elisabeth of Austria) and commoners (Peggy Shippen, the seductive, insanity-faking wife of Benedict ...
And if you’re too busy to take your pencils back to school, and maybe not the biggest stickler for accuracy, then you may want to head to Stoneham for “Founding F%!#ers: The Story of Ethan ...
Regarding Peggy Shippen, it seems as if Mr. Davis had been in a position most fully qualified to speak with authority, and because one, or several, persons may take offense at the light-hearted ...
As a once revered Continental Army leader, his appointment as Philadelphia's military governor exposes him to corruption, extravagant living, and the allure of Peggy Shippen, a Loyalist's daughter.
He began consorting with British sympathizers and courted the 18-year-old daughter of a Loyalist judge named Peggy Shippen, whom he married in 1778. (Arnold’s first wife died in 1775 while he ...
Within weeks of arriving in Philadelphia in June 1778, the 36-year-old Benedict Arnold (a widower) met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, described as one of the most beautiful women in the city. Less ...
It's a story of Benedict Arnold's wife, Peggy Shippen, actually inspired by my local history in Hudson Valley and the plot to turn West Point over to the British, which would've ended the American ...