Patriot on the Kennebec: Major Reuben Colburn, Benedict Arnold and the March to Quebec, 1775 9781614238379, 2011049608

In late 1775, a few months a�fter the first shots of the Revolution were fired, Benedict Arnold led more than one thousa

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Patriot on the Kennebec: Major Reuben Colburn, Benedict Arnold and the March to Quebec, 1775
9781614238379, 2011049608

Before Benedict Arnold was branded a traitor, he was one of the colonies' most valuable leaders. In September 1775,

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Why did the once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause become its most dishonored traitor? General Benedict

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