Click2Biography - Benedict Arnold - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>BENEDICT ARNOLD:</p> <p>TRAITOR DEFINED</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="benedict_arnold_ch1.htm"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="benedict_arnold_ch2.htm">2. EARLY PROMISE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="benedict_arnold_ch3.htm">3. A FLAWED HERO</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="benedict_arnold_ch4.htm">4. GREED</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="benedict_arnold_ch5.htm"><b>5. DECEPTION</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="benedict_arnold_ch6.htm"><b>6. THE PLOT</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="benedict_arnold_ch7.htm"><b>7. BENEDICT ARNOLD ESCAPES</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="benedict_arnold_ch8.htm"><b>8. EXECUTION OF JOHN ANDRE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">I rejoice<br> in the opportunity I have<br> of inviting you to join<br> His Majesty’s Arms.</b></i><br><br> Benedict Arnold<br> <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/rbc/rbpe/rbpe11/rbpe111/11100200/001dq.gif" target="_blank">Proclamation</a> to the Continental Army<br> October 20, 1780<br><br></font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">At the beginning of September, 1780 <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/28/4/28-0370a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Benedict Arnold</b></a> was a <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mgw/mgw4/045/1000/1018.gif" target="_blank"><b>Major General</b></a> in the Continental Army. His assignment? The command of <a href="http://digilib.nypl.org:8080/dennis/?MIval=images&START=37&WINSIZE=12&rlin=NYPG91-F168&title=Stereoscopic+views+of+the+United+States+Military+Academy%2c+West+Point%2c+New+York+and+vicinity%2e&classmark=MFY+Dennis+Coll+91%2dF168%2e&catnyp=b2744660" target="_blank"><b>West Point</b></a>, a strategically important American fort on the Hudson River.</p> <p>By the end of the month, he was a traitor who had tried to sell out his country, his fort and his men. His price? Twenty thousand pounds sterling (worth about $1 million today).</p> <p>What caused this twice-wounded Revolutionary War hero to commit treason? Who was this man whose very name means “traitor” to an American?</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="benedict_arnold_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></a></center></a></p><br> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>