Vintage portrait of Benedict Arnold, an American military officer who served as a general during the American Revolutionary War. He later switched allegiance to the British, betraying the American ...

Jones told me that the life of Benedict Arnold was “definitely an American tragedy.” “He gave his all in the battles of the American Revolution. At Ridgefield, he twice had horses shot from ...

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.

Author Jack Kelly tells the full story of infamous American traitor Benedict Arnold in his new book. Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images “Most Americans know one thing about ...

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 ...

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. China claps back with its own ...

Benedict Arnold’s name has become synonymous with treason in the generations since the American Revolution, even if the particulars are sometimes forgotten. Arnold was born in 1741, grew up in ...

before Arnold defected he had performed services in the cause of American liberty that, irrespective of his subsequent treachery, deserved to be remembered. In “God Save Benedict Arnold,” Jack ...