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"I met an old friend while having a beer in the Green Dragon Tavern in Boston." @SalinaBBaker

Andre is impressed by the Leeds-Liverpool canal. "Construction of this canal started in 1770, when I was 20 years old."

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Watching all manner of vessels make their way in and out of the Savannah port! @zed_pm #Georgia

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#ThrowbackThursday to when we made our way to NYC via Red Bank, NJ. Trains! @Cinemawesome & @onapedalstool

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The man seen hanging here is British Major John Andre, who was captured and hanged as a spy during the American Revolution. Why, then, is there a monument in New York in his honor?

A song called "The Ballad of Major Andre" was found in a copybook in New York in 1822. The excerpt below demonstrates the admiration and sympathy Americans felt for this British soldier.

Now Arnold to New York has gone, A-fighting for his King, And left poor Major Andre On the gallows for to swing. Andre was executed, He looked both meek and mile, His face was fair and handsome, And pleasantly he smiled. It moved each eye with pity, And every heart there bled, And everyone wished him released And Arnold in his stead. He was a man of honor! In Britain he was born, To die upon the gallows Most highly he did scorn. And now his life has reached its end So young and blooming still— In Tappan's quiet countryside He sleeps upon the hill.

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