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Colonial Era to Present Day History Buff

Colonial Era to Present Day History Buff

By: Kirk Monroe
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 History 101. Book and Trip Reviews.

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  • Breaking Apart Dr. Church’s Ciphered Letter

    Breaking Apart Dr. Church’s Ciphered Letter
    Mar 7 2026
    Learn if Dr. Church came into contact with a woman whom remembered him not long after he had returned to Massachusetts from Philadelphia. Figure out what made this encounter rather interesting from a secretive perspective. Get introduced to the term cipher. Learn how John Fleeming was connected to Dr. Church including a skeleton of Dr. Church’s that comes out around late July 1775. Discover how Mary Wenwood is linked with Dr. Church including any particular high level task he assigned her to perform. Find out just how many years Benjamin Church had spent studying overseas in England to become a doctor. Agree if it’s fair to say Dr. Church became so overwhelmed with inquiries regarding care of soldiers that he thought about resigning. Determine if Church himself was given a leave of absence from the Continental Army. Discover who exactly had possession of the ciphered letter come September 1775 including an understanding behind its severity. Find out how Mary Wenwood was viewed by men of higher rank in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Learn what happened to Mary Wenwood come late September after enduring multiple hours of interrogation. Learn if her interrogation brought down Doctor Benjamin Church. Agree if there was more than one individual skilled in the practice of deciphering especially following Dr. Church’s falling out. Determine exactly how many groups of decipherers worked on breaking down Doctor Church’s ciphered letter. Go behind the scenes and learn everything there is possible about just how sensitive Dr. Church’s letter truly was. Learn exactly what kind of cipher Church himself used per the letter written.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Part 2/2 Behind The Spy Game

    Part 2/2 Behind The Spy Game
    Mar 3 2026
    Explore significance behind Congress’s decision to appoint George Washington as Commander-In-Chief of the newly created Continental Army. Learn who accompanied George Washington from Philadelphia to Massachusetts. Discover whom Washington and his colleague came into contact with once reaching Springfield, Massachusetts. Get an understanding behind what Washington himself underwent after arriving into Massachusetts early July 1775. Go behind the scenes and understand why Dr. Church and other committee members were so adamant on having troops defend Massachusetts Sea Coast. Determine exactly where General Washington stood on the matter of defending Massachusetts Sea Coast. Understand significance behind July 27,1775, involving Dr. Church from a medical promotion standpoint including what he does upon arrival into Cambridge. Get introduced to Doctors Lemuel Hayward & William Aspinwall including their medical staffing challenges as well as promises made to both men by Dr. Church himself. Discover exactly what made Dr. Aspinwall unique from a medical practitioners standpoint including whom he studied under. Find out just how many patients Doctors Aspinwall & Hayward tended to from May 10 into Mid October 1775 including where their position status’s stood around September. Determine if General Washington himself had a hand in assisting Doctors Hayward & Aspinwall with their promotion dilemmas. Go behind the scenes and explore how one letter of Doctor Church’s got handled by multiple person’s with end destination being Boston.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Part 1/2 The Spy Game

    Part 1/2 The Spy Game
    Feb 27 2026
    Explore what William Legge, Second Earl of Dartmouth, encouraged General Thomas Gage to pursue come August 1774. Understand true significance behind letter obtained by British Leaders under General Gage come March 3,1775. Determine Doctor Church’s role behind this letter. Discover what Doctor Church reported to the British come March 26, 1775 involving Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Learn if a letter from April 11,1775, eight days before Battles of Lexington & Concord, contained information involving potential involvement from neighboring New England Colonies. Figure out one possible way which Dr. Church managed to get his reports into Boston. Learn just how powerful the committee for which Dr. Church got added to come April 7,1775, truly was. Discover exactly what Paul Revere noticed about Dr. Church the day after Battles of Lexington & Concord. Determine how Dr. Church himself truly felt following British Army’s debacle at Concord. Go behind the scenes and receive an in depth analysis report as to how Dr. Church made it into Boston just after Battles of Lexington and Concord. Agree if General Gage was very anxious in obtaining more information after having met directly with Dr. Church come late April 1775. Get an understanding as to what Dr. Church warned General Gage about per a committee report dated from May 12,1775. Learn how Dr. Church went to Philadelphia. Learn who exactly from the Massachusetts Colony went to England and provided British Newspaper sources the battle outcomes at Lexington and Concord including total number of days it took to reach England.

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    1 hr and 22 mins
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