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After discovering Arnold’s treason, Washington summoned Wayne and his troops to man the West Point fortifications, and he put Nathanael Greene in command. Before taking his new post, Greene convened a court-martial in the Congregational Church in Tappan, New York, on September 29, appointing Lafayette, Henry Know, Lord Stirling, and eleven other major generals and brigadier generals to decide Andre’s fate. They were unanimous: captured using a false name, in civilian clothes, Andre had acted as a soy and had no recourse to treatment as a prisoner of war. They condemned the winsome young man to death, despite pleas from the locals to spare him. At noon, on October 2, 1780, they hanged him from a gibbet atop a thickly wooded hill and buried his body there, several hundred yards from the church and the sacred ground where Patriot soldiers lay buried. He was twenty-nine years old.

Harlow Giles Unger, Lafayette, (2002) p.125

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On September 17, 1780, Washington took matters into his own hands and set out by coach for Hartford, Connecticut, to meet Rochambeau. With him were Lafayette, Hamilton, Brigadier General Henry Knox, commander of artillery, a handful of aides, and a cavalry escort. The next day, they stopped to lunch with General Arnold, near West Point. Lafayette and Arnold has met - and liked each other - two years earlier at the time of the abortive Canadian invasion. After lunch, Arnold ferried Washington and the others across the Hudson before returning to his command. Washington promised to stop at West Point on his return to inspect the fortifications and dine with Arnold and his wife, the Philadelphia socialite Peggy Shippen.

Harlow Giles Unger, Lafayette, (2002) p.121