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#12716. l3i7l
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Although not as famous as Benedict Arnold, who was the first American caught spying for the British during the American Revolution?
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JReid
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Benjamin Church, who was a member of both the Massachusetts provisional congress and the Sons of Libery (those ragscallions who threw the tea into the water in Boston Harbor), was in realilty a paid spy for the British general Sir Thomas Gage. Six weeks before 'the shot heard round the world', Church tipped off Gage telling him many military secrets of the rebel forces. George Washington got wind of it in October, 1775 when some of Church's letters were captured. Church was arrested, tried for treason and jailed until 1777. He ended up getting on a ship that was never heard from again (not the one captained by Alan Hale). See  www.si.umich.edu/spies.
Jul 05 01, 2:44 PM
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