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New Information About America's Most Famous Traitor
Benedict Arnold
by DUDLEY C GOULD
 
ISBN-10: 0-913337-61-7; Trade Paperback; 72 pages; 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
ISBN-13: 978-0-913337-61-5; Illustrated
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By May 1779, when the traitor Benedict Arnold made his first overtures to the British, the contemporary
methods of treachery had already been tried by others. But Arnold’s treason is remembered best because his
was the most conspicuous and highest ranking among the American military.
It was at Valley Forge that the Congress, nine congressmen hiding at York, Pennsylvania, had loyalty
oaths printed for every officer to sign, including George Washington. There is a copy of one signed
by Benedict Arnold, witnessed by Major General Knox, preserved in the National Archives.
Arnold was noted for being persistently thinking about money but insisted that his prime reason for
defecting was not money (he never received what he believed he was worth), but the common fear
that the French would defeat the British and take over.
Arnold insisted it was far better for the United Colonies to return to British rule than be absorbed by
the powerful French Army and Navy, believing firmly that they could easily defeat the shabby
Continental Army commanded by such weak leaders as General Gates.
This fear was the result of over a century of savage winter border raids from Quebec by French priests
leading Abenakis Indians, including the sacking of the frontier village of Deerfield, Massachusetts
on two occasions. Babies were brained on the spot, men shot and scalped, women and children
carried off as slaves to Quebec.
Would Benedict Arnold have actually joined the British without the constant influence of his
social-climbing Loyalist wife, Peggy Shippen? Her service to the Crown earned her an annual pension.
Major John André, British officer, spy and Arnold’s contact, was Peggy’s friend.
 
 
 
 

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