The escape of Bendict Arnold in 1780, seen here boarding the British sloop-of-war Vulture. Benedict Arnold, 1741 - 1801. General during the American Revolutionary War who fought for the American Continental Army and later defected to the British Army. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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