As accusations of treachery continue to swirl around Washington and the White House, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the specter of a stocky, limping, figure dressed in the tricorn hat ...

Distinguished American combat officer Benedict Arnold met a British commander in secret with a plot to trade the colonial stronghold at West Point for cash on this day in history, Sept. 21, 1780. The ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — A trio of local filmmakers are challenging viewers to reconsider a historical figure whose name is synonymous with treason in their new cinematic documentary “Benedict Arnold: ...

American history remains relentlessly unkind to Benedict Arnold, the notorious "turncoat" who abandoned the Continental Army and took up arms for the British in the Revolutionary War. But perhaps that ...

Benedict Arnold began the American Revolution as one of the nation’s boldest and most admired heroes. He was known for his ...

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — A month before the British surrender at Yorktown ended major fighting during the American Revolution, the traitor Benedict Arnold led a force of Redcoats on a last raid in his ...

Benedict Arnold, the Connecticut native whose name has been synonymous with the word traitor for 240 years, is getting a fairer shake thanks to a new movie. “Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed,” a ...

A rarely displayed lock of American traitor Benedict Arnold’s hair will be exhibited at the New York fort he helped capture with the help of Vermont’s Green Mountain Boys in the Revolutionary War’s ...

It was once common knowledge, the story of Benedict Arnold—that extraordinarily successful patriot general who abruptly turned against the American Revolution. Because he had been so trusted by George ...

The British officer with whom Arnold had been colluding was captured by the American forces. The documents he carried laid out the plans for Benedict Arnold's handover of West Point to the British.

To understand the proximate causes of Arnold’s treason, we must start from the summer of 1778, when Philadelphia was evacuated by the British. On that occasion, as General Arnold was incapacitated for ...

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