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Dr. Benjamin Church, Spy: A Case of Espionage on the Eve of the American Revolution
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John A. Nagy
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Espionage and betrayal in America's infancy.
If you're drawn to the shadowy corners of American history, the tale of Dr. Benjamin Church might just captivate you. John A. Nagy's meticulous research brings to light the murky allegiances and espionage at the dawn of the American Revolution. It's a deep dive into the life of a man who might be the new most notorious traitor in your history lexicon, perfect for anyone who loves unraveling the complex, hidden layers of the past.
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Dr. Benjamin Church, Spy: A Case of Espionage on the Eve of the American Revolution
by
John A. Nagy
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ISBN: 9781594161841
Authors:
John A. Nagy
Publisher: Westholme Publishing
Date of Publication: 2013-10-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics:
Presidents,
Biography,
History,
American History,
Political Science,
War,
Microhistory
Goodreads rating: 3.47
(rated by 19 readers)
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Dr. Benjamin Church, Jr. (1734–1778) was a respected medical man and civic leader in colonial Boston who was accused of being an agent for the British in the 1770s, providing compromising intelligence about the plans of the provincial leadership in Massachusetts as well as important information from the meetings of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Despite his eminence as a surgeon—he conducted an autopsy on one of the victims of the Boston Massacre—and his own correspondence and the numbers of references to him from contemporaries, no known image of him exists and many aspects of his life remain obscure. What we do know is that George Washington accused him of being a traitor to the colonial cause and had him arrested and tried; after first being jailed in Connecticut and then Massachusetts, during which he continued to profess his innocence, he was allowed to leave America on a British vessel in 1778, but it foundered in the Atlantic with all hands lost. The question of whether Dr. Benjamin Church was working for the British has never been conclusively demonstrated, and remains among the mysteries of the American Revolution. In "Dr. Benjamin Church, A Case of Espionage on the Eve of the American Revolution", noted authority John A. Nagy has scoured original documents to establish the best case against Church, identifying previously unacknowledged correspondence and reports as containing references
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