Tallmadge
Americannoun
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“We don’t give up and you never close a murder case,” Tallmadge Police Chief Ron Williams told the station after Sapharas was served with the indictment Sept. 10.
From Fox News • Sep. 16, 2019
James Tallmadge retorted, “If civil war must come, I can only say, let it come!”
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
After important letters were lost during an enemy raid, Tallmadge invented a “numerical dictionary” code that matched 763 cities, names, and words to numbers.
From National Geographic • Jul. 3, 2017
Lee, in turn, positions Tallmadge and his dragoons at the perilous “tip of the spear” in what could be a war-ending battle.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2015
Major Benjamin Tallmadge, Washington’s intelligence chief, saves a “country girl”—a spy—from British pursuers.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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