Rev250-048 Court Martial of Benjamin Church

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.6 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Oct. 1775: Patriots discover that one of their top leaders in Massachusetts has been cooperating with the enemy. For more context, check out Episode 73 of the American Revolution Podcast: https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2018/12/episode-073-siege-of-boston-autumn.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.4	Hello, and thanks for joining Revolution 250, where we look at events that took place 250 years ago this week.
0:12.7	This is from the American Revolution podcast, a short bonus episode to remind you about these important anniversaries from the Revolutionary War. This week we
0:22.6	remember the court-martial of Benjamin Church, which rendered its decision at the end of October
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1:49.4	Dr. Benjamin Church was a successful physician and surgeon when the war began.
1:55.3	He was the son of a prominent Boston merchant, and his family had been in Boston for quite some time. His great-grandfather and namesake, Colonel Benjamin Church, had played a prominent role in
2:01.7	King Phillips' war a century earlier. In the years leading up to the Revolutionary War, Dr. Church
2:07.6	became a rather prominent leader in the Patriot Cause. Dr. Church had performed an autopsy on
2:13.6	crisp as addicts and treated several other wounded in the Boston Massacre.
2:18.7	In 1773, he had given the oration for the anniversary of the massacre.
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