A brilliant American combat officer and this country\'s most famous traitor, Benedict Arnold is one of the most fascinating and complicated people to emerge from American history.
Benedict Arnold.
Lefkowitz extensively researched Arnold\'s expedition and made numerous trips along the same route that Arnold\'s army took.
Award-winning author Arthur Lefkowitz provides important insights into Arnold\'s character During the earliest phase of his military career, showing his aggressive nature, need for recognition, experience as a competitive businessman, and his obsession with honor that started him down the path to treason.
Benedict Arnold\'s Army covers a largely unknown but important period of Arnold\'s life.
In one of the greatest exploits in American military history, Arnold led his famished corps through the early winter snow, up and over the Appalachian Mountains, and on to Quebec.
At times Arnold\'s men were up to their waists in freezing water dragging and pushing their clumsy boats through surging rapids and hauling them up and over waterfalls.
The route turned out to be 270 miles of treacherous rapids, raging waterfalls, and trackless forests that took months to traverse.
Arnold believed that his expedition would reach Quebec City in twenty days.
Benedict Arnold, an obscure and controversial Connecticut officer, to command the corps who signed up for the secret mission.
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The initiative for the assault came from George Washington who learned that a fast moving detachment could surprise Quebec by following a chain of rivers and lakes through the Maine wilderness.
The epic campaign is the subject of Benedict Arnold\'s Army, a fascinating campaign to bring Canada into the war as the 14th colony.
The objective of Arnold and his heroic corps was the fortress city of Quebec, the capital of British-held Canada.
His contemporaries called Arnold "the American Hannibal" after he successfully led more than 1, 000 men through the savage Maine wilderness in 1775.
A brilliant American combat officer and this country\'s most famous traitor, Benedict Arnold is one of the most fascinating and complicated people to emerge from American history
