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The Blue Flower

(5,442 posts) Tue May 9, 2017, 10:05 PM May 2017

So what was it they did to Benedict Arnold?

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So what was it they did to Benedict Arnold? (Original Post) The Blue Flower May 2017 OP

Nothing, actually. He managed to skedaddle from West Point down to a British ship... Princess Turandot May 2017 #1

Princess Turandot

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1. Nothing, actually. He managed to skedaddle from West Point down to a British ship...

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Tue May 9, 2017, 10:30 PM

May 2017

when he realized that he had been outed as a turncoat. His name did become synonymous with treachery, of course.

After the war, he resettled in England where he eventually died.

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