History

Culper Ring

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Introduction

George Washington remains one of the political icons in United States of America through his intellectual activities when he led the Culper Ring spy network to counter the powerful British forces that has already occupied New York City in 1776. Culper Ring spy network managed to secretly and intellectually to explore, collect, and transfer messages from the British operation process to the General Washington. In this text, there is exploration of the motives to the Culper Ring formation, the operations of Culper Spy Ring, and the achievements of Culper Ring.

Motives to the Culper Ring Formation

In August 1776, British forces managed to occupy New York City, as George Washington, then the General of United States military, had predicted[1]. As Rose argues, New York City was well supplied, wealthy, having an outstanding harbor, and its location was between South and New England; factors that Washington had predicted would encourage the invasion of British forces to the city. In the same year, 1776, British authorities managed to capture American officer, Nathan Hale, and proceeded to hang him in New York City without undergoing any trials[2]. He had been working as unrevealed spy for the Washington government when the unfortunate happened; British authorities caught him when heading to his regiment. Hale had succeeded in penetrating the British lines for secretive information gathering, and he British had no hesitation on hanging him once they got hold of him. At the height of American Revolution, the death of Hale demonstrated the critical dangers that spies were in, particularly in the New York City where the British had their stronghold.

At the beginning of American Revolution in 1775, a cavalry officer, Benjamin Tallmadge, whose origin was Setauket, awarded a major rank after his enlistment to Continental Army. Seeing the escalating dominance...