Washington Murder Plot
by Granger
Title
Washington Murder Plot
Artist
Granger
Medium
Painting - Painting
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WASHINGTON MURDER PLOT. An apocryphal attempt on George Washington's life at Richmond Hill, New York, June 1776 Housekeeper Phoebe Fraunces serves the general a dish of green peas, having already warned him that they had been mixed with poison by one of his bodyguards, Thomas Hickey (right). Wood engraving, American, 1877, after Felix O.C. Darley.
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February 22nd, 2016
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