Benedict Arnoldin a sentence
- Captain Benedict Arnold.† (source)
- The army Washington had sent across the Maine wilderness under Benedict Arnold to attack Quebec had been defeated.† (source)
- "I thought you were supposed to be in a play at school and all I thought you were supposed to be Benedict Arnold in that play and all," I said.† (source)
- Benedict Arnold—the Appalachee general—had fortified the city.† (source)
- We have had Benedict Arnold, Aaron Burr, Jefferson Davis, and now we have James W. Grimes.† (source)
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To this day "Benedict Arnold" can be used as an American synonym for "traitor."
Benedict Arnold = U.S. general and traitor in the American Revolution; in 1780 his plan to surrender West Point to the British was foiled (1741-1801)
- You want to be Benedict Arnold, don't you?† (source)
- Sam was with Benedict Arnold's troops.† (source)
- You've heard of General Benedict Arnold, I expect?† (source)
- An American assault on Quebec led by Colonels Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold had failed.† (source)
- Through the years of the war Sewall hadtaken heart from every American defeat, every report of dissension in the American army, and from the news of Benedict Arnold's return to his proper allegiances.† (source)
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- Led by an aggressive Connecticut colonel named Benedict Arnold, they were to advance on Quebec across the Maine wilderness, taking a northeastern route up the Kennebec River.† (source)
- At tea following church, another guest would recount, topics of conversation could range from religion, politics, and literature, to Mrs. Siddons, Shakespeare, and Benedict Arnold.† (source)
- The capture of Fort Ticonderoga from the British by Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and a handful of Green Mountain Boys earlier in May had been sensational news, but the fort and its captured artillery were abandoned.† (source)
- It stinks, but I'm Benedict Arnold.† (source)
- In September General Benedict Arnold had conspired to commit treason, to turn over the fortress at West Point to the British, and when found out, defected to the enemy.† (source)
- The traitor Benedict Arnold led a sudden, daring raid on Richmond, and with the advance of spring, the British under Cornwallis swept through the state almost at will, scattering the legislature to the hills and very nearly capturing the governor.† (source)
- The New York Herald predicted: "They will be fortunate if their names do not go down into history bracketed with that of Benedict Arnold."† (source)
- This act was done deliberately, because the traitor, like Benedict Arnold, loved money better than he did principle, friends, honor and his country, all combined.† (source)
- The Rev. Theodore Parker, heedless of the dangers of secession, who had boasted of harboring a fugitive slave in his cellar and writing his sermons with a sword over his ink stand and a pistol in his desk "loaded and ready for defense," denounced Webster in merciless fashion from his pulpit, an attack he would continue even after Webster's death: "No living man has done so much," he cried, "to debauch the conscience of the nation...I know of no deed in American history done by a son of New England to which I can compare this, but the act of Benedict Arnold."† (source)
- "Benedict Arnold is engaged upon other business," said the stranger, with a glower.† (source)
- If Nolan had compared George Washington to Benedict Arnold, or had cried, "God save King George," Morgan would not have felt worse.† (source)
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