The Bottle in the Box Tree: How a Gentleman Betrayed Revolution
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The Bottle in the Box Tree: How a Gentleman Betrayed Revolution
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Fear and fascination meet in a Paris garden: every Tuesday after 9:30 p.m. a hollow in a box tree hid a glass bottle whose visible gossip masked invisible ink holding the secrets of the Franco-American treaty - and the man who placed it was a trusted secretary to Benjamin Franklin. How did Edward Bancroft, a Fellow of the Royal Society, pass critical diplomatic intelligence to London for years before his role was revealed?
In this episode, we follow the documented path of Edward Bartholomew Bancroft from Westfield to Paris, tracing his scientific rise, his appointment as secretary to the American commission, and the clandestine weekly bottle exchanges that made him a double agent. What crossed the Atlantic in those bottles, and what did his betrayals cost the revolution?
Person: Edward Bartholomew Bancroft
Date of birth: January 20, 1745
Event: Weekly intelligence exchanges via bottle in a box tree in Paris
Role: Secretary to the American Commission in Paris; double agent for Britain
Payment: Initial British pension of £200 per year
- Bancroft left Westfield for Surinam on July 14, 1763, at age 18.
- He published An Essay on the Natural History of Guiana in London in 1769.
- He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1773 and earned an M.D, from the University of Aberdeen in 1774.
- Bancroft met Silas Deane in Paris on July 8, 1776, and returned to London on July 26, 1776, promising to assist the American mission.
- He signed reports to London under the alias Edward Edwards and received British instructions weekly via a bottle exchanged at a Tuileries box tree.
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