This is Angela Odell and you are listening to real cool history for kids.

A podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical world view perspective.

Welcome to an adventure.

Welcome to episode 106 of Real Cool History for Kids.

This episode is for Liberty Clark who wanted to hear the stories about the spies of the

American Revolution.

Hey Liberty, this one's for you.

Every war in history has involved espionage and saboteurs and spies on all sides of the

conflict.

The spy networks of every war have worked to infiltrate the other side's army in order

to gather important intel, that's important information about the movements of the other

army.

Spies throughout history have gained fame by putting their lives on the line.

The American Revolution, which turned into the war of independence, was greatly helped

by the spies who worked to bring their information to George Washington.

General George Washington himself was actually part of that mass of spy ring of the Revolutionary

War and is thought to be a great spy master of the culprer spy ring.

His spy name was Agent 711.

By nature, spy rings are secretive.

In fact, most of the time, the people who make up these operative rings don't know the

true identity of many of their co-spies.

George Washington didn't even know all of the spies during the war.

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