LIFE AND TREASON OF BENEDICT ARNOLD
By Jared Sparks.
Boston:
Hilliard, Gray, And Co.
1835.
CONTENTS.
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Stationed in Rhode Island •Superseded in his Rank by Congress • Complains of Injustice and ill Treatment •His Bravery in the Affair of Danbury •Commands at Philadelphia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
Progress of the Conspiracy on the Part of the British Commander •Major John André
Various Schemes for effecting an Interview between Arnold and André •Their Meeting within the American Lines
Outlines of the Plan for surrendering West Point •Major André passes in Disguise through the American Posts •His Capture at Tarrytown