This Day in History: November 3

Major Andre was captured by General Montgomery, in Upper Canada, while on his way to Quebec, November 3, 1775, and taken, with other officers, to Lancaster, where he became an inmate of Caleb Cope's house. There, the eldest brother, John, then 13 years of age, received lessons in drawing from Major Andre; and the three brothers, John, William and Thomas had, in after life, vivid recollections of their games of marbles and other juvenile sports with the lively young English officer, who was destined to figure so terribly in the after history of this country.