NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — A month before the British surrender at Yorktown ended major fighting during the American Revolution, the traitor Benedict Arnold led a force of Redcoats on a last raid in his ...

Benedict Arnold, shown on the left concealing his plans in John André's boot, has become synonymous with treason but before he betrayed America, he saved it. Bettmann / Corbis “You have five minutes,” ...

The Broadway musical “Hamilton” had a substantial effect, changing the way many Americans now view a major figure from the Revolutionary War era. More recently, the makers of a documentary hope their ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Benedict Arnold is a hero again, at least temporarily, at two upstate New York historic sites where his pre-treason exploits are being remembered. Arnold's heroic actions in the ...

Benedict Arnold is the supreme hero/traitor of American history. Americans were in awe of his military exploits in the taking of Fort Ticonderoga, and as the spearhead of General Horatio Gates’s ...

Women of the American Revolution fascinate me. No, that's not Joe Millionaire's favorite pickup line. I'm serious. Especially after reading a biography of Gen. Nathanael Greene's wife, Caty, I want to ...

The British officer with whom Arnold had been colluding was captured by the American forces. The documents he carried laid out the plans for Benedict Arnold's handover of West Point to the British.

I’ve recently read and enjoyed three interesting historical true crime books. They cover Wild West bank robbers, a notorious traitor, a movie star and her gangster boyfriend. Tom Clavin has written ...