What do people think about Benedict Arnold?

When you're in a massive insurrection against your mother country, it's usually a bad idea to toss one of your best leaders under a bus. read more

That's exactly what everyone did to Benedict Arnold and the result was that a very upset, unappreciated military hero was pushed into a situation where the only thing keeping him around was an allegiance to his home state. read more

Arnold was the second of six children born to a close-knit and prosperous family in Norwich, Conn., in 1741. His mother sought solace in religion and his father in alcohol after three of Arnold's siblings died of diphtheria. read more

It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter—much of it an exact copy of one he’d sent to another woman six months before. read more