(Please help fast have 30 min, giving out 25 points and brainlyest answer to correct answer)

Read the excerpt from Tools of the Spymaster In the summer of 1777, British general Sir Henry Clinton, in New York City, have to keep in touch with General John Bergoyne, Who’s troops world heading down the Hudson Valley, and with the general Sir William How Howe, Who was supposed to link up with Burgoyne but instead had chosen to take Philadelphia. Howe believed that “friends [of the British] Government” along the Hudson would make Burgoyne’s task easy. But along the Hudson there were also many enemies of the British. A peekskill man, for example, although paid to be courier for Burgoyne, hand of the general’s message to the Americans. Other British couriers who wrote the south were never heard from again.




Which statement includes explicit information from the text?

A) General Burgoyne’s misjudgment lead to failures in communication between British troops.

B) Several people pretended to be friends of general Howe but we’re actually spies for the American.

C) General Clinton needed to communicate with other British leaders to coordinate attacks.

D) General Burgoyne gave a message to a courier who ended up giving it to the Americans.