Chapter 3. Lecture III
Continuing with our survey of cryptologic history, the period of the American Revolution in U.S. history is naturally of considerable interest to us and warrants more than cursory treatment. Information regarding the codes and ciphers employed during that period has been rather sparse until quite recently, when a book entitled Turncoats, Traitors and Heroes by Colonel John Bakeless, AUS, was published in 1959 by Lippincott. After a good many years of research, Colonel Bakeless brought together for the first time a considerable amount of authentic information on the subject, and some of it is incorporated in this lecture.
According to Colonel Bakeless – and believe it or not – in early 1775 the British commander in chief in ...
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