Excerpt from Andreana: Containing the Trial, Execution and Various Matter Connected With the History of Major John Andre, Adjutant General of the British Army in America, A. D. 1780 The report was supported by Messrs. Chappell, Jewitt, Tallmadge, and Pickering, on the injustice of legislating on a single case of pension for services, which were, in fact, though important, but the common duty of every citizen, and in which no disability was incurred; whilst there were many survivors of the Revolution, whom the favour of the government had not distinguished, and who are languishing in obscurity and want, and to whom no relief had been or would be extended. "What gave interest principally to the debate, was the disclosure, by Mr. Tallmadge of Connecticut, (an officer at the time, and commanding the advance guard when Major Andre was brought in, ) of his view of the merit of this transaction, with which history and the records of the country have made every man familiar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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John André (1750 – 1780) was a British Army officer hanged as a spy by the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York to the British.