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Few Spies in America—Political Spies active—Charles

I. and his Spies—Louis XVI. and De Kalb—Washington

and his Spies—James Rivington's Work—Secession

Dreams in 1812—The Mexican and Civil Wars—Southern

Female Spies—Their Cleverness and Exploits—Belle

Boyd and her Corps—The Whisky Ring Spies—Custom

House Spies—American Newspaper Spies

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