Early Modern Period Spies - American Revolution Spies, Spies in Elizabethan Ireland, Ethan Allen, Paul Revere, Silas Deane, Benedict Arnold (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: American Revolution spies, Spies in Elizabethan Ireland, Ethan Allen, Paul Revere, Silas Deane, Benedict Arnold, Moses Hazen, Nathan Hale, John Andre, Robert Townsend, Philip Mazzei, Thomas Hickey, Benjamin Church, John Laurens, Culper Ring, John Honeyman, Edward Bancroft, James Rivington, Lydia Darrah, Abraham Woodhull, Benjamin Tallmadge, Thomas Knowlton, Benjamin Edes, Jonathan L. Austin, Clement Gosselin, Christian Andreas Kasebier, Zofia Potocka, Francois Henri de la Motte, James Armistead, Enoch Crosby, John Brown of Pittsfield, John the Painter, Margaret Kemble Gage, John Ker, Agent 355, Daniel Bissell, Colonel David Henley, John Clark, Nathaniel Hughson, John Champe, Pierre Douville, James "Spanish" Blake, Justine Cathrine Rosenkrantz, Metcalf Bowler, Saul Matthews. Excerpt: Benedict Arnold V (January 14, 1741 - June 14, 1801) was a general during the American Revolutionary War. He began the war in the Continental Army but later defected to the British Army. While a general on the American side, he obtained command of the fort at West Point, New York, and plotted to surrender it to the British forces. After the plot was exposed in September 1780, he was commissioned into the British Army as a brigadier general. Born in Connecticut, Arnold was merchant operating ships on the Atlantic Ocean when the war broke out in 1775. After joining the growing army outside Boston, he distinguished himself through acts of cunning and bravery. His actions included the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775, defensive and delaying tactics despite losing the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain in 1776, the Battle of Ridgefield, Connecticut (after which he was promoted to major general), operations in relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix, and key actions during the pivotal Battles of Saratoga in 1777, in which he suffered le...