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Benedict Arnold
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  • In September General Benedict Arnold had conspired to commit treason, to turn over the fortress at West Point to the British, and when found out, defected to the enemy.†   (source)
  • The capture of Fort Ticonderoga from the British by Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and a handful of Green Mountain Boys earlier in May had been sensational news, but the fort and its captured artillery were abandoned.†   (source)
  • It stinks, but I'm Benedict Arnold.†   (source)
  • At tea following church, another guest would recount, topics of conversation could range from religion, politics, and literature, to Mrs. Siddons, Shakespeare, and Benedict Arnold.†   (source)
  • The traitor Benedict Arnold led a sudden, daring raid on Richmond, and with the advance of spring, the British under Cornwallis swept through the state almost at will, scattering the legislature to the hills and very nearly capturing the governor.†   (source)
  • The New York Herald predicted: "They will be fortunate if their names do not go down into history bracketed with that of Benedict Arnold."†   (source)
  • This act was done deliberately, because the traitor, like Benedict Arnold, loved money better than he did principle, friends, honor and his country, all combined.†   (source)
  • …of harboring a fugitive slave in his cellar and writing his sermons with a sword over his ink stand and a pistol in his desk "loaded and ready for defense," denounced Webster in merciless fashion from his pulpit, an attack he would continue even after Webster's death: "No living man has done so much," he cried, "to debauch the conscience of the nation…… I know of no deed in American history done by a son of New England to which I can compare this, but the act of Benedict Arnold."†   (source)
  • "Benedict Arnold is engaged upon other business," said the stranger, with a glower.†   (source)
  • If Nolan had compared George Washington to Benedict Arnold, or had cried, "God save King George," Morgan would not have felt worse.†   (source)
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