“George Washington loved Benedict Arnold,” writes Kelly. “ [And] Arnold’s betrayal broke his heart.” More than 250 years later, Benedict Arnold’s name remains a byword for betrayal.

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 ...

Benedict Arnold's once-valiant reputation soured as he betrayed the American Revolution for greed. His name now represents dishonor and the dangers of lost trust.

Such reticence is due to the fact that this illustrious anonymous warrior was Gen. Benedict Arnold, whose failed conspiracy to betray the Hudson Valley fortress of West Point to the British ...

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 ...

Traitor, Judas, and even Benedict Arnold are more befitting terms for a man who, three years ago, pilfered and leaked 15 million classified documents without the authorization to do so. Knowing that ...

His father, Captain Benedict Arnold, was a very well-to-do merchant. Young Benedict was sent to a small boarding school essentially to train him to go to Yale and become part of the American elite.

After 200 years as a family heirloom, a military decoration awarded to Isaac Van Wart, who helped capture a British spy and save West Point, has been given to New York State.

New London, Conn., has never forgiven Benedict Arnold for his Revolutionary War treason — and for burning their city. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from New London, Conn. Connecticut, 1781. New ...

Hundreds are expected to gather in New London Saturday for the Burning of Benedict Arnold Festival, during which a paper mâché figure of the disgraced American Revolutionary is torched to mark ...