When Warren was killed, Philbrick relates, British Gen. In other respects, though, Warren was a model patriot - a fine physician, a well-respected spokesman for the cause, and an officer intent on proving his mettle on the battlefield.
The doctor was no saint: He likely impregnated one woman shortly before becoming engaged to another, or so Philbrick believes, though the evidence is not conclusive. Philbrick paints Warren as a far more admirable, indeed pivotal, figure. He was "financially overextended and had at least one mistress - not to mention the fact that he was a spy for the British." Church, in the patriot inner circle, reported regularly to Gage on supposedly secret meetings. All of them were flawed, and all of them had something to hide." One egregious example was Benjamin Church. "In truth," Philbrick writes, "the patriots were no different from any group of people. Colonial loyalties were often shifting or divided.
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