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Author : Isaac N. Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PRNC:32101067484780
Author : Joyce Lee Malcolm
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681778167
A vivid and timely re-examination of one of young America’s most complicated figures: the war hero turned infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold. Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period’s great puzzles. Why did a brilliant military commander, who repeatedly risked his life fighting the British, who was grievously injured in the line of duty, and fell into debt personally funding his own troops, ultimately became a traitor to the patriot cause? Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm skillfully unravels the man behind the myth and gives us a portrait of the true Arnold and his world. There was his dramatic victory against the British at Saratoga in 1777 and his troubled childhood in a pre-revolutionary America beset with class tension and economic instability. We witness his brilliant wartime military exploits and learn of his contentious relationship with a newly formed and fractious Congress, fearful of powerful military leaders, like Arnold, who could threaten the nation’s fragile democracy. Throughout, Malcolm weaves in portraits of Arnold’s great allies—George Washington, General Schuyler, his beautiful and beloved wife Peggy Shippen, and others—as well as his unrelenting enemy John Adams, British General Clinton, and master spy John Andre. Thrilling and thought-provoking, The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold sheds new light on a man—as well on the nuanced and complicated time in which he lived.
Author : D. A. B. Ronald
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612005225
This biography of Britain’s spy chief during the Revolutionary War sheds new light on his conspiracy with Benedict Arnold—and his mysterious capture. John André was head of the British Army’s Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most decisive phase. In 1780, he masterminded the defection of the high-ranking American general Benedict Arnold. As the commander of West Point, Arnold agreed to turn the strategically vital fort over to the British. André and Arnold also conspired to kidnap George Washington. The secret negotiations between Arnold and André were protracted and fraught with danger. Arnold’s wife Peggy acted as go-between until September 21st, 1780, when the two men met face to face in no-man’s-land. But then André was captured forty-eight hours later, having broken every condition set by his commanding officer: he was within American lines, wearing civilian clothes, and carrying maps of West Point in his boots. When he announced himself as a spy, the Americans had no recourse. Tried by a military tribunal, he was convicted and hanged. André’s motives for his apparent sacrifice have baffled historians for generations. This biography provides a provocative answer to this mystery—explaining not only why he acted as he did, but how he wished others to see his actions.
Author : Willard Sterne Randall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : American loyalists
ISBN : 1612306063
Explores the career of Benedict Arnold as patriot and soldier and his treasonous decision and betrayal during the Revolutionary War.
Author : George Canning Hill
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547165200
The name Benedict Arnold is infamously associated with the word 'Treason'. Benedict Arnold was an American military officer who served during the Revolutionary War. He fought with distinction for the American Continental Army and rose to the rank of major general before defecting to the British side of the conflict in 1780. Afterward he led the British army in battle against the soldiers whom he had once commanded, after which his name became synonymous with treason and betrayal. This book is his life's story as told by biographer George Canning Hill.
Author : George Canning Hill
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1314849867
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Author : Steve Sheinkin
Publisher : Flash Point
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1429951354
Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing battle scenes, and surprising twists, this is a gripping and true adventure tale. The Notorious Benedict Arnold is the winner of the 2011 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction.
Author : Jane Merrill,John Endicott
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476638645
The life of Benedict Arnold, the American Revolutionary War general who attempted to surrender West Point to the British in 1780, didn't end after he betrayed his American compatriots. In the newly formed United States, he was condemned as a conspirator and in Britain, he was suspected of the same. He quickly left America, spent a short time in London, and largely operated in Canada and the Caribbean as a smuggler, a mercenary and a pariah. Although much has been written about Arnold's famous fall from grace, this book is the story of a charismatic man of vaulting ambition. With new research and photographs, it delves into his last twenty years. Arnold remains fascinating as a toppled hero and a flagrant traitor. Another American general wrote in the 1780s that Arnold "never does anything by halves"; indeed, he lived on a big scale. This study documents each of the various points of the globe where the restless Arnold operated and lived, pursuing wealth, status, and redemption.
Author : Isaac N. Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X000961379
Author : Barry Wilson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773568976
While most biographies of Arnold concentrate on his revolutionary exploits and subsequent treason, Wilson explores his role in Canadian history and the routes that brought him to Canada. He takes the reader into rural Quebec in the 1760s and 1770s when Arnold toured the area as a Yankee trader and goes behind the scenes in 1775-76 when Arnold's American forces almost captured Quebec after an amazing trek through the Maine wilderness. Wilson explores Arnold's business exploits in Saint John, New Brunswick, the emerging Loyalist port town where for six years Arnold commanded an international trading network before returning to England. Written for those interested in unexpected tales from Canada's colourful history, Benedict Arnold follows Arnold's life from the battlefields of New England to the siege of Quebec, from the high seas to the day-to-day details of running a trading company in Saint John. Wilson offers a detailed, sometimes sympathetic, portrait of this controversial and complex man.
Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B5307996
Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : American loyalists
ISBN : BSB:BSB10070985
Author : James K. Martin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814756468
This landmark biography stands as an invaluable antidote to the historical distortion surrounding the life of Benedict Arnold.
Author : Isaac Newton Arnold,Benedict Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : American loyalists
ISBN : 0722292635
Author : Arthur S. Lefkowitz
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611211122
This “gripping” history recounts the lives of American patriots who were a part of Arnold’s failed Canadian invasion during the Revolutionary War (Thomas Fleming, author of Liberty! The American Revolution). Hundreds of men followed Col. Benedict Arnold in an expedition to capture Quebec in 1775. After Arnold was wounded, his troops found themselves outnumbered and trapped inside the city. Award-winning author and Revolutionary-era historian, Arthur S. Lefkowitz takes a close look at some of the brave veterans who fought in Arnold’s failed campaign and explores the extraordinary lives they led afterward. In Benedict Arnold in the Company of Heroes, Lefkowitz paints vividly detailed portraits of early American patriots who continued their fight for independence after Arnold’s campaign. Some of the men portrayed include Charles Porterfield (who led troops at Brandwine); Daniel Morgan (the hero of Cowpens); Henry Dearborn and Timothy Bigelow (who fought alongside Arnold at Saratoga); Christian Febiger and Return Jonathan Meigs (who were at the forefront of the attack on Stony Point); Simeon Thayer (who refused to surrender at Fort Mifflin); and Col. Aaron Burr (whose wartime record was overshadowed by his later political career and duel with Alexander Hamilton). Benedict Arnold in the Company of Heroes “will delight readers who are looking for something new about the War of Independence” (John Ferling, author of Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence).
