Distinguished American combat officer Benedict Arnold met a British commander in secret with a plot to trade the colonial stronghold at West Point for cash on this day in history, Sept. 21, 1780. The ...

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — A month before the British surrender at Yorktown ended major fighting during the American Revolution, the traitor Benedict Arnold led a force of Redcoats on a last raid in his ...

LIKE A NORMAL PLACE. BUT DON’T BE FOOLED. CONNECTICUT IS THE STATE WHERE THEY LIKE THEIR CHEESEBURGERS STEAMED. OH, YEAH, AND THERE’S EVEN ONE PLACE WHERE PICKLE PIZZA IS THE PEOPLE’S PICK. WE ...

Benedict Arnold’s name might be the first that comes to mind when we think of treason not just because he was a traitor, but because he was such an unlikely one. For several years before he attempted ...

This Connecticut town never forgets a traitor. Hundreds are expected to gather in New London Saturday for the Burning of Benedict Arnold Festival, during which a paper mâché figure of the disgraced ...

The British officer with whom Arnold had been colluding was captured by the American forces. The documents he carried laid out the plans for Benedict Arnold's handover of West Point to the British.

American history remains relentlessly unkind to Benedict Arnold, the notorious "turncoat" who abandoned the Continental Army and took up arms for the British in the Revolutionary War. But perhaps that ...

“Most Americans know one thing about Benedict Arnold,” writes award-winning author and historian Jack Kelly in ‘God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America’s Most Hated Man’ (St. Martin’s ...

Benedict Arnold, shown on the left concealing his plans in John André's boot, has become synonymous with treason but before he betrayed America, he saved it. Bettmann / Corbis “You have five minutes,” ...

HELL (The Borowitz Report)—In a rare public statement, the late Benedict Arnold said that he would never have been remembered as the worst traitor in American history if he had had the benefit of a ...

ARNOLD. ON THE SURFACE, IT MIGHT SEEM LIKE A NORMAL PLACE, BUT DON’T BE FOOLED. CONNECTICUT IS THE STATE WHERE THEY LIKE THEIR CHEESEBURGERS. STAY. THEMED. OH YEAH, AND THERE’S EVEN ONE PLACE WHERE ...