Life and Treason of Benedict Arnold
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, And Co. 1835.
Life and Treason of Benedict Arnold
Arnold's Birth and Early Life
He begins his Military Career • Capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point
Expedition through the Wilderness to Quebec
Operations in Canada • Affair of the Cedars • Retreat from Montreal
Arnold censured for the Seizure of Goods at Montreal • Appointed to the Command of a Fleet on Lake Champlain • Naval Combat
Stationed in Rhode Island • Superseded in his Rank by Congress • Complains of Injustice and ill Treatment • His Bravery in the Affair of Danbury • Commands at Philadelphia
Joins the northern Army • The tragical Death of Jane McCrea near Fort Edward • Arnold commands an Expedition to Fort Schuyler • Rejoins the main Army on the Hudson • The Battles of Behmus's Heights
Takes Command in Philadelphia • Proposes joining the Navy • Charges against him by the Council of Pennsylvania • His Plan for a new Settlement in the western Part of New York • His Trial by a Court-martial
His expensive Style of Living and pecuniary Embarrassments • First Ideas of betraying his Country • Application to the French Ambassador • Marriage • Takes Command at West Point