Benjamin Tallmadge was an American military officer, spymaster, and politician.
22 Facts About Benjamin Tallmadge
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Benjamin Tallmadge is best known for his service as an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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Benjamin Tallmadge acted as leader of the Culper Ring during the war, a celebrated network of spies in New York where major British forces were based.
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Benjamin Tallmadge led a successful raid across Long Island that culminated in the Battle of Fort St George.
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Benjamin Tallmadge graduated from Yale in 1773, where he was a member of Brothers in Unity and was a classmate and close friend of the American Revolutionary War spy Nathan Hale.
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Benjamin Tallmadge served as superintendent of Wethersfield High School from 1773 to 1776.
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Benjamin Tallmadge was given the position of director of military intelligence by George Washington after Nathaniel Sackett was relieved of his duties because he did not gain any ground from the enemy.
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Benjamin Tallmadge was in charge of bringing intelligence from British-controlled New York to the Continental army, and he did so by assembling a network of spies known as the Culper Ring, with the help of Abraham Woodhull and Robert Townsend.
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Benjamin Tallmadge suspected Andre of being a spy and Arnold of being his accomplice, and tried to have Jameson reverse his orders.
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Benjamin Tallmadge was unsuccessful, but did convince Jameson to send a rider and take Andre to Salem, eight miles east of the Hudson River and to send the documents to Washington.
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Sinai, Benjamin Tallmadge stopped in Coram, New York, and ordered the burning of 300 tons of hay which the British had been stockpiling for the winter.
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Benjamin Tallmadge subsequently served as Assistant Treasuer, Treasurer, Vice President and President of the Society of the Cincinnati in the state of Connecticut and continues to be represented by a living descendant in the society today.
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Benjamin Tallmadge served until he resigned to assume his seat in Congress.
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Benjamin Tallmadge established a successful mercantile and importing business and was the first president of the Phoenix Branch Bank, a position he held from 1814 to 1826.
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On March 4,1801, Benjamin Tallmadge succeeded William Edmond as a Federalist Party member of the US House of Representatives to represent Connecticut's at-large congressional district.
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Benjamin Tallmadge served until March 3,1817, when he was succeeded by Thomas Scott Williams.
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In 1829, Benjamin Tallmadge was among a group of Federalists who defended Uriah Tracy against accusations by John Quincy Adams and William Plumer.
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Benjamin Tallmadge is buried in East Cemetery in Litchfield, Connecticut.
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The town of Benjamin Tallmadge, Ohio, is named in Benjamin Tallmadge's honor.
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The Boy Scouts of America's Benjamin Tallmadge District serves the north shore of Eastern Long Island.
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Talmadge, Maine is named for Benjamin Tallmadge, who owned the township in the early 1800s.
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Benjamin Tallmadge is a main character in the AMC series Turn: Washington's Spies, played by Seth Numrich.