BENEDICT ARNOLD: Hero, Traitor... Whiner

The Washington Post | March 8, 1995| | Copyright

Too bad for Benedict Arnold that the bullet tore through his leg at the Battle of Saratoga and didn't smack him in the head. He would have died an American hero. Instead, the Revolutionary War general survived and came to make his name synonymous with "traitorous rat."

Sitting on the West Bank of the Hudson River in upstate New York is the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In 1780, it was a key American defensive position that Arnold plotted to surrender to the British. For cash. It was an epic betrayal by an American Judas, a scheme that, had it succeeded, could have so undermined the ...

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