Benjamin Church As A Hero Essay

A hero is a person who believes that their enemy is not inherently malevolent, but also has wit and bravery. A good example of a hero is Benjamin Church. Church was an Englishman who went from leading a small group of men to leading an army. Church was brave, although he was injured he returned to war. church was also compassionate, he is against englishman who enslave or kill innocent Indians. Lastly Church had wit, his tactics for building an effective army and planned attacks were what brought the war to an end.
Church was a brave leader who put his army’s best interests in front of his own. After Church got shot three times and his army men seeing this raced to his side and began to carry him out of the fort, but Church “insisted that they first completed their mission, especially since the Indians had no charges left in their muskets.” (Philbrick 275). Church could have easily abandoned the mission to ensure his own health, but putting his own army in front of his own well-being was very brave and noble of him. After weeks of laying in bed racked with a fever Church was returning to fight in what was hoped to be the final battle, but still wasn’t fully recovered. Church was “still so lame that he needed the help of at least …show more content…
Church was a brave leader, he was willing to risk his own life for the army's best interest at winning the battle. He is also very compassionate to the Indians who have not done anything against Church, he is not quick to judge and hate on all Indians. Church had wit, he had a very good tactic of what his army should be like to have the best chance of winning the war. Church is a hero who is likes to win the right way, not by enslaving and killing innocent indians. He may have started out as one of the leaders who led a small group of men, but he ended leading an army of both Englishmen and Indians in a very heroic