2-329-786 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Portrait and autograph of Major John Andre, 18th century British soldier and spy, c1880. Andre (1751-1780) assisted Benedict Arnold, the American general and traitor, in his plan to surrender the fortress of West Point to the British during the American Revolutionary War. He was captured by the Americans and hanged as a spy. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume II, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.