Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Traitor and the Spy, by James Thomas Flexner. How Benedict Arnold wove treason and Major John Andre was caught in the web: an impressive double history, told with scholarship and edge (TIME...
Even in a day when the traitor has become a headline staple, the name of Benedict Arnold remains the U.S.'s symbol of ultimate treachery. His was the classic sellout, the shocker that reduced a national hero to a despised knave. Yet there are still those ready to defend him as a maligned soldier who was goaded into villainy, and schoolteachers in his home state of Connecticut have complained that it becomes increasingly difficult to present him as a traitor...
Cash on the Barrelhead. That Benedict Arnold, apothecary, merchant, and self-made soldier was a hero on the battlefield has never been made more clear. In Connecticut, in Canada, on Lake Champlain and at Saratoga, he fought with the kind of superb gallantry that lesser men might call foolhardy. But Arnold off the field was a different man. Vain, querulous and greedy, he loved rank at least as much as he loved his country, and was not above using his position to line his pocket through fishy and degrading commercial deals. That he betrayed his country for reasons of political...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick, still dredging up obscure heroes and scoundrels of history for his Saturday-night radio talks, had taken a moment out before his discussion of "An English Benedict Arnold-George Monk" for a special announcement: "Before I begin this week's broadcast I wish to convey to my listeners the desire to obtain two statues of Virginia Revolutionary statesmen and heroes that would fit into alcoves six feet high." Behind his cryptic appeal was a plan to embellish the wall of the "Nathan Hale Court," which fronts the Tribune Building. Within...
...Hessian troops, came south from Canada almost unopposed. But General Howe, who was to go north to meet him, sailed away to take Philadelphia instead. An American army under General Horatio Gates blocked Burgoyne on high ground on the west bank of the river. Soon it did more: Benedict Arnold, the most daring, most ambitious, most feared of Washington's generals,** violated Gates's cautious orders and led two attacks, the second after his jealous superior had stripped him of his command. Burgoyne, trapped between a horde of fast-arriving militiamen and the northern wilderness, surrendered...