CSPAN3 May 19, 2012
siege. the british find out that british general thomas gauge is in charge. they have no one on staff who really is an expert in ciphers and codes and they have no system actually in place to send coded messages to their operations in canada or even here in new york. american general george washington takes command of the troops at cambridge and, again, on the american side there is nobody in charge of cryptology. now what you do have a situation, where merchants are not totally ignorant of codes and ciphers. when they deal with their factors, their agents in london, they had a tende...
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