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    Swiftly and stealthy the Green Mountain Boys, under the command of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British on May 10, 1775. This decisive victory and plundering of the fort gave the colonial troops much needed supplies and control of a British strategic position. The capturing of Fort Ticonderoga played a key role in stopping supply lines, cutting British communications, plundering artillery and munition, and capturing other forts and ships around Lake Champlain

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    Benedict Arnold V was born in the year of 1741 on the 14th of January in Norwich, Connecticut. His mom, Hannah Arnold was a wealthy women and married his dad, Benedict Arnold III a successful merchant and sea captain. Benedict had five brothers and sisters, but only one lived to be an adult. Benedict Arnold V went to a private school until the age of 13, because of his dad’s mistakes. His dad made some bad business deals, which caused him to start drinking a lot and then their money started to

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    information given to him by Arnold in his shoes. He was captured and taken to the American commanding officer who informed General Washington and Arnold of the news. Arnold immediately

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    When George Washington discovered the now-infamous treachery of John André and Benedict Arnold, he was preparing for a breakfast at the Arnold home. Arnold fled from the house, but his wife “Peggy had retired to her bedroom, ready to feign innocence and hysterical despair…She was an artful actress, and the show of stunned sorrow which she staged in the days that followed convinced almost everyone of her innocence.” Ever since Peggy Shippen Arnold’s dramatic display of her ignorance to her husband’s

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    The Battle of Saratoga was the most difficult thing Benedict Arnold went through in all his impossible journeys. Arnold was on his horse and charged right in the line of fire through 120 yards of people shooting at him without getting shot. You have to be very brave, or very stupid to do that when he could have just took a little bit longer and went behind the people shooting. Another crazy thing that Arnold did that made it difficult was he led an attack that he had ½ as many soldiers as the British

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    General Benedict Arnold. Arnold, a soldier hurt in battle and never properly compensated by the Army, considered flipping on the Americans as a way out of the situation he was in. Peggy Shippin kept in contact with Andre throughout these years and Andre asked Shippin for help to persuade Arnold to flip. Shippin and Arnold got to know each other and eventually married. She told Arnold how he was not being treated fairly by the Americans and that Britain would be able to offer him more. Arnold agreed

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    types of people of WIlliamsburg, 3 of them stood out- Benedict Arnold, Catherine Blaikley, and Aggy. Benedict Arnold was a smart military strategist that initially was a patriot at the beginning of the American Revolution. However, due to feelings of rejection due to lack of promotions he felt he deserved and a belief that the patriots had become incompetent, he begin plotting his plan to rejoin with the British Empire and betray the Americans. Arnold was appointed Military commander in Philadelphia and

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    could find out this news, Mr. Townsend said that he had to leave because he was being suspected as a spy. To her bad luck, she found out an extraordinary piece of information. “By all logic, “Mr. Moore” was America’s most successful general, Benedict Arnold. And he was selling West Point to the British.” This was probably the biggest life changer yet. Since Mr. Townsend was no longer there, she had to travel to Tellers Point (by

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    Paul Revere Short Story

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    Paul revere’s story It was an evening just like every other trying to live through the day without being attacked and holding down the town. Once the darkness hit that was the cue to go to bed so everybody went to bed and had a drink to help them relax. It was a quiet night and everybody was sleeping for the long day of training ahead. Soon little did we know a guy named Paul Revere was on a very important mission to tell the colonists in Concord. When he arrived, he first went to warn Adams and

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    his adult life he went on to become one of the major benefactors to the Americans winning in the Revolutionary War. The early life of James is not what you would probably expect of a double agent who was able to spy on general Cornwallis and Benedict Arnold and never get caught. James Armistead was born into slavery to William Armistead around 1748 on the 10th of December in new kent county, virginia. (Since James was a slave much is still unknown about his childhood like his family sibling etc)

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