Image: JohnAndreInscription

Description: I took the picture myself today. Anyone can use the picture for any reason. Text of the inscription: (some punctuation illegible; may not be accurate) HERE DIED OCTOBER 2, 1780. MAJOR JOHN ANDRE, OF THE BRITISH ARMY WHO ENTERED THE AMERICAN LINES ON A SECRET MISSION TO BENEDICT ARNOLD FOR THE SURRENDER OF WEST POINT, WAS TAKEN PRISONER TRIED AND CONDEMNED AS A SPY. HIS DEATH THOUGH ACCORDING TO THE STERN CODE OF WAR MOVED EVEN HIS ENEMIES TO PITY, AND BOTH ARMIES MOURNED THE FATE OF ONE SO YOUNG AND BRAVE. IN 1821 HIS REMAINS WERE REMOVED TO WESTMINSTER ABBEY, A HUNDRED YEARS AFTER HIS EXECUTION. THIS STONE WAS PLACED ABOVE THE SPOT WHERE HE LAY, NOT TO PERPETUATE THE RECORD OF STRIFE BUT IN TOKEN OF THOSE BETTER FEELINGS WHICH HAVE SINCE UNITED THE NATIONS ONE IN RACE, IN LANGUAGE AND IN RELIGION, WITH THE EARNEST HOPE THAT THIS FRIENDLY UNION WILL NEVER BE BROKEN. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster
Title: JohnAndreInscription
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