British arresting American spy Emily Geiger, en route to General Sumter with a message from General Greene, South Carolina, 1781. Hand-colored woodcut

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British arresting American spy Emily Geiger, who was en route to General Sumter with a message from General Greene, South Carolina, 1781. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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