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Podcast: Your History Your Story
Episode: S9 Ep02 Benedict Arnold: Traitor, Hero or Both?
Description: The name Benedict Arnold is almost always associated with being a traitor. In 1780 Arnold, who was then the commander of West Point, a strategic American fort on the Hudson River during the Revolutionary War, handed over military secrets to a British spy named Major Andre.
However, Andre was captured and Arnold’s treasonous act was discovered. While Andre was tried and hanged by the Americans, Arnold was able to escape and eventually fight for the British against his former comrades.
Although, widely known as a traitor, many people don’t know that prior to defecting to t...