What Are Benedict Arnold's Accomplishments

Benedict Arnold was born in Norwich, Connecticut, January 14, 1741. Arnold was born the last of six children to Benedict Arnold III (1683-1761) and Hannah Waterman King. He was named after his great-grandfather Benedict Arnold, an early governor of the Colony of Rhode Island, and his brother, Benedict IV, who died in infancy before Benedict Arnold V was born. Only Benedict and his sister Hannah survived to adulthood; his other siblings succumbed to yellow fever in childhood. Through his maternal grandmother, Arnold was a descendant of John Lothropp, an ancestor of at least four Presidents of the United States. The Arnold family was well off until Benedict Arnold III made several bad business deals that plunged the family into debt and became
In spite of his successes, Arnold was passed over for many promotions by the Continental Congress while other general officers took credit for his many accomplishments. As his personal debts mounted, Congress investigated his accounts, and charges of corruption were brought by political adversaries. Frustrated, bitter, upset by the questioning of his honor, and strongly opposed to the new American alliance with France, Benedict Arnold secretly changed
May God forgive me for ever having put on another". Arnold was buried at St. Mary 's Church, Battersea, in London, England. It is unknown whether he was buried in any particular uniform. American sources maintain that Arnold died poor, in bad health, and essentially unknown. He left a small estate, reduced in size by his debts, which his wife, Peggy, vowed to clear. Peggy died in 1804. In 1976, 172 years later, an American admirer of the Arnolds paid for a stained-glass window in their honour. Its inscription reads in part: Beneath this church lie buried the bodies of Benedict Arnold, sometime general in the army of George Washington, and of his faithful and beloved wife Margaret Arnold of Pennsylvania…The two nations whom he served in turn in the years of their enmity have united in this memorial as a token of their enduring friendship. Twelve years later, Arnold finally received the promotion and the title he had sought throughout the last twenty years of his life. A historical plaque placed in 1988 on the house in Gloucester Place is dedicated to: Major General Benedict Arnold, American