George Washington - The First Conspiracy

With George Washington given the command of the newly formed Continental Army, a plot to conspire against Washington and his army begins. Washington, in his dress uniform, and on a recruiting trip, travels from New York to Boston greeted by large enthusiastic crowds. "Washington slept here." Governor Tryon and Mayor Mathews, confined to the "Duchess of Gordon," begin their plot to turn the Continental Army and the disenfranchised citizens of New York against Washington. A chance meeting between three career criminals begins the unraveling of the British plot. Governor Tyron's spies are everywhere. Washington uncovers this with the help of a baker and a prostitute. The spies have infiltrated his inner circle. With the war at a standstill, Colonial Knox comes up with the most brilliant plan of the war. Bringing cannons from upstate New York to the Boston harbor chased the British warships out of the harbor. A gunsmith named Gilbert Forbes is enlisted by the British to supply arms and to enlist men into the British. After Washington returns to New York the plot to kill him and destroy his army intensifies. Washington's Life Guards are infiltrated. The Committee of Conspiracies, the forerunner of our modern CIA, is formed at the request of Washington by the Continental Congress. One of the three career criminals, Isaac Ketchum, in prison, spies for the Continental Congress and helps to unfold the plot against Washington. The plot is uncovered and the culprits, Mayor Mathews, and Governor Tryon, and one of Washington's guards are found guilty. A Life Guard, Thomas Hickey, is hung. The war rages on. This leads to the Declaration of Independence.