Major General Benedict Arnold, commander of the Continental Army fort at West Point, New York, flees to the British lines when his plot to turn the base over to General Henry Clinton, Commander-in-Chief, North America.
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References:
Carl Berger, Broadsides & Bayonets: The Propaganda War of the American Revolution, (1961; San Rafael, California: Presidio, 1976), 33.
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