Benedict Arnold
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Mr. Brumwell is the author of “Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
It turns out Benedict Arnold was a certified badass for America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
The term predatory incursion is also used literally in writings of that period to refer to slightly smaller attacks like the 1781 Raid on Richmond led by American defector Benedict Arnold.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2025
Unsurprisingly, most white Southerners bitterly rejected Longstreet’s entreaties and condemned him as a traitor on par with Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2023
For those at the time it meant that Hamilton became a martyr to the dying cause of Federalism and Burr became the most despised national leader since Benedict Arnold.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
