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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. His contemporaries called Arnold the American Hannibal after he successfully led more than 1,000 men through the savage Maine wilderness in 1775. The objective of Arnold and his heroic corps was the fortress city of Quebec, the capital of British-held Canada. 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 initiative for the...

On the morning of November 20, 1776, General Charles Cornwallis overran patriot positions at Fort Lee, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. This attack threw Washington's army into turmoil and led to an American retreat across the state. This book examines this critical campaign.

Examines in fascinating detail a largely unknown but important period of both the Revolution and Benedict Arnold's fascinating life-the campaign to bring Canada into the war as the 14th colony.