Military victories were essential in helping America win its independence from Britain. Early successes gave the Patriots ...

This weekend about 50 other descendants of Bunker Hill veterans will arrive in Charlestown to commemorate the bravery and ...

The first Benedict Arnold had been one of the colony ... his army would have won the Battle of Saratoga. That February, the Royal Gazette had referred sympathetically to his plight in ...

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 ...

The name Benedict Arnold remains a synonym in American ... helping lead rebel forces during the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. The stunning colonial victory at Saratoga encouraged France to join ...

For most people, it’s Benedict ... Arnold was a complicated man. By the time he took over West Point, he already had a reputation — or many reputations. He had been a force in the battles ...

Author Jack Kelly tells the full story of infamous American traitor Benedict Arnold ... of Fort Ticonderoga and Battle of Saratoga, where he was shot in the leg. But Arnold was repeatedly ...

Benedict Arnold committed treason— for more than two centuries, that’s all that most Americans have known about him. Yet Arnold was much more than a turncoat. His achievements during the early ...

General Benedict Arnold was a native of Connecticut who ... He was badly wounded in the leg in the 1977 Battle of Saratoga. Victory for the patriots there was the turning point of the war.

Members of the 24th Connecticut Militia Regiment Revolutionary War reenactors present a volley tribute at the Battle ... when Benedict Arnold is charging across the battlefield at Saratoga ...

before watching as officials set Arnold's effigy ablaze for the Burning of Benedict Arnold Festival ... capture of Fort Ticonderoga and the Battle of Saratoga in New York. In 1779, though ...