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Benedict Arnold

(1741—1801) army officer

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Arnold, Gen Benedict

Arnold, Gen Benedict (1741–1801)   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Military History

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2004
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History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
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Remembered mainly as a mercenary traitor during the American independence war, Arnold was also one of the ablest commanders

Arnold, Benedict

Arnold, Benedict (1741–1801)   Reference library

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

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2002
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History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
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223 words

With Ethan Allen, he captured Fort Ticonderoga in 1775. He was wounded in a failed assault on Quebec late that same year. Arnold was appointed military governor of Philadelphia in ...

Arnold, Benedict

Arnold, Benedict (1741–1801)   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to American Military History

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2004
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
283 words

(1741–1801), Continental army general and traitor.

In 1755, at sixteen, Arnold fled his dysfunctional family in Norwich,

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