A Vermont organization is hoping kids across the region will get to travel across Lake Champlain the same way soldiers did ...

New London, Conn., has never forgiven Benedict Arnold for his Revolutionary War treason — and for burning their city. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from New London, Conn. Connecticut, 1781. New ...

American officer Benedict Arnold met in secret with British Major John Andre on Sept. 21, 1780, with a plot to trade the American stronghold at West Point for cash amid the American Revolution.

“George Washington loved Benedict Arnold,” writes Kelly. “[And] Arnold’s betrayal broke his heart.” More than 250 years later, Benedict Arnold’s name remains a byword for betrayal.

Reenactors in colonial garb read by lamplight inside the historic Nathan Denison House in Forty Fort. Their clothing and the furnishings would have been familiar to Benedict Arnold and the ...

Benedict Arnold: The story behind America's most notorious traitor. His name is synonymous with treason, but this cinematic documentary shows that Benedict Arnold’s heroic contributions to ...

By 1780, Benedict Arnold would have fully turned on America. His new loyalist bride connected him with the British and he hatched a plan to turn over West Point for £20,000.

Benedict Arnold started as a patriot and one who served our revolutionary efforts very well. However, Arnold became bitter when he felt that he had been snubbed for promotion and that others were ...

The prosecution of Benedict Arnold—a Washington favorite, an emblem of national authority and a friend to Philadelphia’s wealthy—would be the pretext to flex his state’s political muscle.

The Burning of Benedict Arnold Festival is celebrated annually in New London, Connecticut. AP “This project and specifically the reaction, the sort of hunger for its return, has been huge and ...

In “God Save Benedict Arnold,” Jack Kelly makes no attempt to excuse his subject’s infamous betrayal, conceding that it left an “indelible” stain on the general’s character.

Benedict Arnold is the supreme hero/traitor of American history. Americans were in awe of his military exploits in the taking of Fort Ticonderoga, and as the spearhead of General Horatio Gates’s ...