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At the end of the war, Colonel Robinson went to England with a part of his family. Ultimately the British Compensation Commission granted them £24,000 toward the original £80,000 value of his and Susanna's personal estate (reflecting about £16,000 Sterling, plus the 60,000 Philipse Patent acres and some city property valued together at about ...
The Loyal American Regiment was raised in mid-March 1777 by wealthy loyalist Beverley Robinson. Robinson, a childhood friend of George Washington, commanded the regiment until it was disbanded at the end of the war in 1783. Several of Beverley Robinson's sons were officers in the regiment, including Frederick Philipse Robinson.
Posing as a deserter, Gray entered the service of Colonel Beverly Robinson, a Tory intelligence officer, and became Robinson's courier. As a result, the contents of each of Robinson's dispatches were read by the Americans before their delivery.
In colonial era Anglo-American usage, militia service was distinguished from military service in that the latter was normally a commitment for a fixed period of time of at least a year, for a salary, whereas militia was only to meet a threat, or prepare to meet a threat, for periods of time expected to be short. Militia persons were normally ...
Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, GCB (September 1763 – 1 January 1852) was a soldier who fought for Britain during the American War of Independence.His father, Colonel Beverley Robinson, was a Virginian who moved to New York, marrying a wealthy heiress of the Philipse family with Dutch and Bohemian [1] ancestry, Susanna Philipse.
The United States would not create another formal intelligence agency until the Office of Naval Intelligence was established in 1882. The Army would create its Military Information Division in 1885, which would become the predecessor of the Military Intelligence Corps and United States Army Intelligence and Security Command.
In a BBC interview with Kim Kuk-Song, a colonel who spent 30 years working in North Korea's powerful spy agencies before he defected, admitted being asked to kill other defectors.
On June 30, 1974, the unit was reassigned to the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency and given the new mission of providing counterintelligence coverage to the eastern part of the United States. In 1977, as part of a significant restructuring of Army Intelligence, it became part of the newly established U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command.