Pen and brown ink on paper; 10.2 x 13.0 cm (4 x 5 1/8 in). Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Completed 1 October 1780. British Major André was hanged as a spy, for his involvement in the treason of Benedict Arnold, the next morning.
Pen and brown ink on paper; 10.2 x 13.0 cm (4 x 5 1/8 in). Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Completed 1 October 1780. British Major André was hanged as a spy, for his involvement in the treason of Benedict Arnold, the next morning.
[Lord Frederick] North defended his role in the war for America to his death. He insisted that it did not originate in a despotic wish to tyrannise America, but from the desire of maintaining constitutional authority of Parliament over the colonies.
He admitted that the war with American had been unfortunate but not unjust,
adding that if he had been forced to mount the scaffold in consequence of the part that I have performed in its prosecution, I shall continue to maintain that it was founded in right and dictated by necessity.