American Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold, who took control of West Point in August 1780, was both hero and villain, depending on whom you ask.

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 ...

In “God Save Benedict Arnold,” Jack Kelly makes no attempt to excuse his subject’s infamous betrayal, conceding that it left an “indelible” stain on the general’s character.

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.

The Burning of Benedict Arnold Festival is celebrated annually in New London, Connecticut. AP “This project and specifically the reaction, the sort of hunger for its return, has been huge and ...

Reenactors in colonial garb read by lamplight inside the historic Nathan Denison House in Forty Fort. Their clothing and the furnishings would have been familiar to Benedict Arnold and the ...

A native son of Connecticut, General Benedict Arnold switched allegiance to the British crown in the middle of the American Revolution. His British troops burned New London to the ground in 1781.