Arnold,Benedict

Arnold,Benedict
Ar·nold (ärʹnəld), Benedict. 1741-1801.
American Revolutionary general and traitor whose plan to surrender West Point to the British for 20,000 pounds was foiled when his accomplice John André was captured (1780). Arnold fled to New York and then to England (1781).

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