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Edward Bancroft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Bancroft (9 January 1744 – 8 September 1821) was an American physician and double-agent spy during the American Revolution. Born in Westfield, Massachusetts, he worked as a spy for Benjamin Fr...
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Edward Whipple Bancroft Morrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Edward Whipple Bancroft Morrison , KCMG (6 July 1867 – 28 May 1925) was a Canadian journalist and Major General in the Canadian Army during World War I. Born in London, Ontario, he worked as a jo...
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BANCROFT, Edward, author, born in Westfield, Massachusetts, 9 January 1744; died in England, 8 September 1820. He had but little schooling, and was apprenticed to a trade. Running away while in debt to his master, he went to sea, but on his return paid what he owed.
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Edward Bancroft was a highly regarded scientist and writer who was hired by Ben Franklin to spy on the British just before the Revolutionary War. Nearly 70 years ... Edward Bancroft was a highly regarded scientist and writer who was hired by Ben Franklin to spy on the British just before the Revolutionary War.
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A friend of Benjamin Franklin's, he had worked as a spy for Franklin on colonial matters. ... He became secretary to the American Commission in Paris. ... He became a spy for the British - reporting the American movements to the British - when he feared that the French would force a European conflict on the British,
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1744–1821, spy in the American Revolution, b. Westfield, Mass. While living in London, he became a friend of Benjamin Franklin and in the Revolution began to operate ... Bancroft in 1778 gave advance information of the Franco-American alliance to the British. Evidence of his duplicity was revealed by Paul L. Ford in 1891.
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later full calf, gilt ruled on covers and spine, gilt title lettering on red morocco spine label, old and partly erased inkstamp on title margin, else a near fine copy, clean, in fine and attractive ... According to Casey Wood, ... Hundreds of the world's finest antiquarian and used booksellers offer their books on Antiqbook.
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Edward Bancroft, “chemist and spy” (ODNB), was an American by birth but moved to England at the age of 23, where he spied for Franklin and then for the British. In the meantime he had spent some time in Dutch Guiana where he gathered the material for this, his first book.
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Bancroft (1744-1821) was an American-born physician, one of the early ex-patriates, who spent most of his life abroad, especially in Dutch Guinea and Europe. He was an autodidact who went on to become a member of the Royal Society and the College of Surgeons.
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