Treacherous beauty : Peggy Shippen, the woman behind Benedict Arnold's plot to betray America /

Reveals the true story of Peggy Shippen, Benedict Arnold's wife and socialite who used her connections within both American and British society to help her husband, Benedict Arnold, and friend, John Andre, plot against the colonists during the Revolutionary War.

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Main Author: Jacob, Mark.
Contributors: Case, Stephen H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, [2012]
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300 |a viii, 279 pages :  |b illustrations, map, portraits ;  |c 24 cm 
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505 0 |a Princess of Philadelphia -- No safe haven -- Enter André -- The Meschianza -- Arnold arrives -- Love and money -- The general's wife -- Spymaster -- The dance of deceit -- The way to West Point -- "The greatest treasure you have" -- Meeting after midnight -- A capture and an escape -- The mad scene -- Pariah of Philadelphia -- The three fates -- "The handsomest woman in England" -- Strangers in America -- Unmanned -- The keepsake -- Epilogue. 
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