EPISODE · Oct 12, 2025 · 6 MIN
Benjamin Church: Doctor and Spy
from The Revolutionary War Podcast · host Matt Schmidt
In July 1775, one of the Continental Army's most trusted leaders committed an act of treachery that would shock George Washington and the fledgling American cause. Dr. Benjamin Church, the first Surgeon General of the United States, sent an encoded letter to British forces that exposed him as a spy. The discovery of his betrayal would establish America's first major treason case and reveal how even the inner circle of Revolutionary leadership had been compromised from the beginning.
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