Word: benediction
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...American General Richard Montgomery and Colonel Benedict Arnold join in attack on Quebec and are routed. Montgomery killed...
When they launched separate attacks on Canada last year, General Richard Montgomery and Colonel Benedict Arnold both carried messages addressing the Canadians as "brothers." Montgomery was authorized to recruit Canadian volunteers for the Continental Army, paying a bonus of 200 acres per man, plus 40 acres more for a wife and each child. Indeed, Congress only agreed to the invasion if, as General Philip Schuyler said, "it will not be disagreeable to the Canadians." The goal of all this friendliness was not just to forestall any British march down the Hudson but also to bring Canada onto the American side...
Brigadier Gen. Benedict Arnold...
...Nothing to be heard from morning to night but 'Doctor! Doctor! Doctor!' " That was Dr. Lewis Beebe's vivid recollection of Brigadier General Benedict Arnold's expeditionary forces retreating from Quebec Province last month. As firsthand accounts of the debacle are gathered, it becomes increasingly clear that the expedition's most dangerous enemy was not gunfire but disease. Says Congressional Delegate John Adams of Massachusetts: "The small pox is ten times more terrible than Britons, Canadians and Indians together. This was the cause of our precipitate retreat from Quebec, this the cause of our disgraces...
Your review of John Ehrlichman's novel, The Company [May 31], instigated the following speculation. If other historical miscreants had written novels based on their experiences, American literature would have been enriched by the following: a psychological study of treason by Benedict Arnold, detailing how a simple soldier was pressured by society to become a turncoat: a thriller by John Wilkes Booth showing how he was really a misunderstood hero who had been seduced into crime by evil Yankee villainy; a political novel by Jefferson Davis, describing the daily life and irritations of a fictional President...