No other American is remembered quite the same as Benedict Arnold. He was a brave soldier, a patriot- and a traitor. Benedict was born in Norwich, Connecticut, on January 14, 1741. When he was 14 years old, Benedict ran away from home to fight in the French and Indian War, but he was brought back by his mother, who apparently was driven insane later in her life. After his mother insisted that he return home, he ran away …
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…the Boston Massacre and now most of us know believe that the firing on an innocent crowd. That's what I believe the case is with Benedict Arnold. There's more to the story than we know. Benedict wasn't pure evil, as we make him out to be sometimes. But unfortunately we can't go back in time and see what really happened, so now we'll just have to depend on what we believe to be the truth.