Summary Of The Notorious Benedict Arnold

The Notorious Benedict Arnold Summary

On September 1780, Benedict Arnold was a Major General in the Northern Continental Army. He is also in command of West Point an American fort in new york overlooking the Hudson bay Later that month, he becomes a traitor who tries to sell out his own country and army for twenty thousand pounds. During Benedict's early years he lived in New Haven Connecticut. Benedict was a big troublemaker, so much so that his parents sent him to a boarding school at age 11.

During Benedict Arnold’s years of service, he defeats and helps defend multiple American forts in his time being a general for the Americans. He defeated Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Saint Jean, Quebec City and he escaped the battle of Valcour Island.

Due to the lack of his credit given to where credit should have been done, he decided that it wasn't worth fighting for the Americans and he committed treason for money from the British. John and was the British officer who gave benedict Arnold the money to sell out his own country. He took the money to become a traitor because he felt he was being neglected.

Benedict disagreed with the taxes created by the British for the colonies and he did not agree with the British politics like most other patriots. He was extremely talented when it came to battle strategies and although he was very unorganized he always managed to leave the battlefield with some sort of win.
He was also one of the main reasons we gained french support because benedict helped win the battle of saratoga (along with Horatio gates) which turned the war from complete annihilation to the Americans have a shot at victory.

The theme of this novel, in my opinion, is betrayal and heroism because benedict showed great bravery in the first half of the book and in the second he betray his own country, that he fought so very hard to defend. An accomplished, hero was what Arnold was until he betrays George Washington his own army and his country. In the thirteen colonies of America and more specifically the northern part of America was where benedict fought for, and against his own country. Can the notorious Benedict Arnold be considered a hero for all his accomplishments as a major general in the Continental Army, Or is his betrayal too significant for us to call him a hero?