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Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/plot-kill-george-washington-180970729/
TIL That there was a plot to kill or kidnap George Washington early in the Revolutionary War – the traitors were from Washington’s Life Guards, similar to today’s Secret Service. One of the traitors was the first person to be put to death for treason, Thomas Hickey, in front of 20,000 people.
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Interesting, a George Hickey, if one of the conspiracy theories is to be believed was accidentally responsible for the death of JFK
It’s still crazy to me the US had massive public executions. Like they seems prehistoric.
The first person to be put to death for treason _in the United States of America_. Not the first person period.
I remember this from Assassins Creed. Connor saved Washington…damn templars.
Too bad for Hickey that the Redcoats didn’t come to save his pathetic ass.