George Washington was severely outnumbered by the British forces in the Revolutionary War. He expertly used spies in order to give the United States an advantage over the British. Washington formed spy rings to collect information. He also used counter Intel to confuse the British Army. By being able to collect information, Washington was able to overcome being outnumbered and defeated the British.
Washington’s key focus on Intel during the War was to utilize Spies. Washington appointed Major Benjamin Tallmadge as chief of Intelligence. Major Tallmadge went on to form the Culper Spy Ring. The spy ring operated for five years, without a single spy being identified, even Washington was unaware who was acting as a spy. In order to do the agents intermingled with the local populace acting as business owners. Furthermore, Agents would take advantage of invisible ink in order to pass information from one location to another location. They would also utilize numerical numbers as a substitute of using names, for instance, George Washington was number 711. The spy ring had a number of successes. “For instance, in 1780 the group learned that the British …show more content…
On numerous occurrences he was able to make the British Army believe that the U.S. had a superior formation than they in fact did, or that they were not ready, when they were in actuality fully prepared. One example of this deception was spy John Honeyman. The British believed that Honeyman was working on the British side. In December 1776 Honeyman told the British that the Americans had no intentions to move during the winter. This made the British army very relaxed and unprepared for a surprise attack. On Christmas night Washington moved his troops across the Delaware River, and launched an attack on the British Army.(Furthermore, with the British Army unprepared, they were forced to quickly surrender.) They were unprepared for an attack and were forced to quickly