Code used by George Washington made available at last

[jim bell]

At 07:35 PM 7/16/96 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
>There's an AP article by Carl Hartman saying that historians now have
>access to a secret handwritten code used by George Washington and
>Marquis de Lafayette.  (It's a newspaper article that somebody
>across the train is reading; looks like today's SF Examiner...)

They probably declassified it a week ago, discovering that the "national 
security" excuse no longer appeared to apply.

Jim Bell
jimbell at pacifier.com