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 ...

Benedict Arnold is the supreme hero/traitor of American history. Americans were in awe of his military exploits in the taking of Fort Ticonderoga, and as the spearhead of General Horatio Gates’s ...

A brief introduction by the American Minister to France enumerates some of the striking points in Talleyrand's career, and quotes opinions of Talleyrand that have been expressed by many French and ...