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“never perhaps was there”: ibid., 524.
“After walking a few”: ibid., 554.
“large, virtuous”: ibid., 337.
“with tears of affection”: ibid.
“the zenith of distress”: ibid., 218.
“so faint and weak”: ibid., 478.
“That sensation of mind”: ibid., 320.
“the mercy of the woods”: ibid., 478.
“left impressions”: ibid., 527.
“My heart was ready”: ibid., 556.
“still more unwell”: ibid., 139.
“poor animal was instantly”: ibid., 219.
“exceeding fine, clear”: ibid., 181.
“I set out and marched”: ibid., 139.
“This sudden change”: ibid., 529.
“impiety, bigotry”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 110.
“to avoid all disrespect”: ibid., 117.
“shed tears of joy”: Roberts, March to Quebec, 261.
“echoes of gladness”: ibid., 219.
“bleaching bones”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 139.
“knew my name”: Roberts, March to Quebec, 347.
“made a deep and wide”: ibid., 346.
“leaving us in such slight”: Kevin Phillips, 1775: A Good Year for Revolution (New York: Viking, 2012), 469.
“so many of my brethren”: Desjardin, Through a Howling, 107.
“Surely, a miracle”: Wilson, Benedict Arnold, 79.
“I propose crossing”: ibid.
“will ever rank high”: ibid., 80.
“immediate surrender”: Roberts, March to Quebec, 89.
“the situation of our army”: ibid., 481.
“Most of the soldiers”: ibid., 560.
“Quebec must inevitably”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 150.
Chapter 6: The Most Terrible Night
“The storm was”: Desjardin, Through a Howling, 171.
“headed mobs, excited”: Hatch, Thrust for Canada, 53.
“I am well acquainted”: Michael Pearson, “The Siege of Quebec, 1775–1776.” American Heritage, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Feb. 1972). https://www.americanheritage.com/siege-quebec-1775-1776.
“peas would have”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 163.
“our heap of nonsense”: Roberts, March to Quebec, 589.
“hard fate to be obliged”: Hal T. Shelton, General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution: From Redcoat to Rebel (New York: NYU Press, 1994), 67.
“against my inclination”: Rick Atkinson, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777 (New York: Henry Holt, 2019), 150.
“I have not the talents”: ibid.
“’Tis a mad world”: Shelton, General Richard, 78.
“active, intelligent”: ibid, 128.
“The object was to”: Roberts, March to Quebec, 561.
“the most Terrible night”: Lefkowitz, Benedict Arnold’s, 247.
“It was impossible to”: Desjardin, Through a Howling, 173.
“The main body”: Roberts, March to Quebec, 190.
“I know not if I shall”: Simeon Thayer, The Invasion of Canada in 1775 (Providence, RI: Knowles, Anthony, 1867), 57.
“called to the troops”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 171.
“between the tibia”: Roberts, March to Quebec, 234.
“it was his opinion”: ibid., 172.
“ordered his pistols”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 173.
“much distinguished”: ibid.
“Morgan now raised”: James Graham, The Life of General Daniel Morgan of the Virginia Line (Cincinnati: Derby and Jackson, 1856), 96.
“we found it impossible”: Desjardin, Through a Howling, 180.
“Betwixt every peal”: ibid.
“You can have no”: Lefkowitz, Benedict Arnold’s, 267–68.
“Orders are given”: ibid., 247.
“the critical situation”: Flexner, The Traitor, 92.
“For God’s sake order”: Desjardin, Through a Howling, 183.
“had the enemy improved”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 181.
“exceeding painful”: Wilson, Benedict Arnold, 108.
“Arnold’s March is”: Lefkowitz, Benedict Arnold’s, 264.
“split a stone”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 190.
Chapter 7: On the Lake
“well made and his face”: Philbrick, Valiant, 59.
“did not combine”: Wilson, Benedict Arnold, 11.
“a tolerable share of”: Flexner, The Traitor, 317.
“with an aching”: Joyce Lee Malcolm, The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 63.
“The junction of the”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 218.
“I am sorry you did not”: Wilson, Benedict Arnold, 125.
“A horde of Tartars”: Douglas R. Cubbison, The American Northern Theater Army in 1776: The Ruin and Reconstruction of the Continental Force (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010), 138.
“place the Rebel Army”: Eliot A. Cohen, Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath That Made the American Way of War (New York: Free Press, 2011), 169.
“unless Every nerve”: ibid., 176.
“I have committed the”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 237.
“we shall have a very”: ibid., 238.
“want of seamen or marines”: ibid.
“of greatest importance”: Randall, Arnold, 256.
“As soon as all the vessels”: Nelson, Benedict Arnold’s, 245.
“to see the spirits”: Walter Hill Crockett, A History of Lake Champlain (Burlington, VT: McAuliffe Paper Co., 1937), 181.
“life and spirit”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 237.
“the northern entrance”: ibid., 246.
“obstinate a temper”: Allan S. Everest, Moses Hazen and the Canadian Refugees in the American Revolution (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1976), 161.
“unprecedented and I think”: AA, 5th Series, 1:1272.
“by no means withhold”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 241.
“the warmth of general”: ibid., 243.
“every report to your prejudice”: ibid., 258.
“fought and bled”: Philbrick, Valiant, 334.
“he says he will pay”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 249.
“you surely must be out”: NDAR, 6:215.
“without a Scruple”: ibid., 223.
“now seems”: ibid., 234.
“it is a defensive War”: Cubbison, The American, 218.
“I am sorry to hear”: Malcolm, The Tragedy, 146.
“Preventing the enemy’s”: Cubbison, The American, 218.
Chapter 8: Stained with Blood
109. “most Genteel feast”: Philbrick, Valiant, 334.
“attacked by a Party”: NDAR, 6:734.
“there is a ship”: ibid., 884.
“particulars of the affair”: ibid., 838.
“a greater part of those”: Nelson, Benedict Arnold’s, 276.
“seamen (no land lubbers)”: Randall, Arnold, 278.
“When you ask for”: ibid., 238.
“Where it is not”: NDAR, 6:1117.
“I am greatly at a loss”: Randall, Arnold, 281.
“I am surprised by”: John R. Bratten, The Gondola Philadelphia and the Battle of Lake Champlain (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002), 54.
“I cannot but think it”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 244.
“Little Hal sends”: Randall, Arnold, 262.
“an exceeding fine”: NDAR, 6:926.
“zeal for the public Service”: Randall, Arnold, 284
“not half finished”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 263.
“full of pranks”: Randall, Arnold, 26–27.
“We had alarm”: Donald H. Wickman, ed., “A Most Unsettled Time on Lake Champlain: The October 1776 Journal of Jahiel Stewart.” Vermont History, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Spring 1996), 92.
“I gave it as my opinion”: AA, 5th Series, 2:1224.
“During the affair”: Cubbison, The American, 239.
“flesh and brains”: Stephen Darley, The Battle of Valcour Island: The Participants and Vessels of Benedict Arnold’s 1776 Defense of Lake Champlain (North Haven, CT: Darley, 2013), 106.
“A prudent man”: Denise Janet Choppin, Godfrey Nims: A History of Colonial New England (Markham, Canada: Stewart Pub & Print, 2002), 49.
“we have a very”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 22.
“Our decks were stain’d”: Darley, The Battle, 106.
“The Doctors cut off”: Bratten, The Gondola, 64.
“The Enemy Fleet”: Darley, The Battle, 111.
“he was our fighting”: Arnold, The Life, 29.
“obliged … to point”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 277.
“the rebels directed”: Cubbison, The American, 249.
“Five broadsides”: Philbrick, Valiant, 336.
“To our utter”: Nelson, Benedict Arnold’s, 312.
“exceedingly fatigued”: Brumwell, Turncoat, 73.
“well acquainted with”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 286.
“the season is so far”: ibid., 285–86.
“fiery, hot, and impetuous”: Bratten, The Gondola, 111.
“conducted himself”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 287.
“it has pleased”: ibid.
“defense he made”: Arnold, The Life, 120.
“animated scarecrows”: John Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 165.
“I think the game”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 293.
“after his very long”: ibid., 290.
Chapter 9: Dearer Than Life
“I should be fond”: Flexner, The Traitor, 119.
“under the most anxious”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 303.
“unless your Strength”: Philbrick, Valiant, 100.
“We have lately had”: ibid., 90.
“at a loss whether”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 308.
“I fear your late”: Nathanael Greene, “To John Adams from Nathanael Greene, 3 March 1777.” Founders Online. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-05-02-0053.
“most infallibly”: Brumwell, Turncoat, 77.
“Surely,” Washington: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 308.
“their promoting”: Arnold, The Life, 127.
“Every personal”: Brumwell, Turncoat, 77.
“sport or pastime”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 311.
“no gentleman who”: Flexner, The Traitor, 121.
“I confess this”: ibid., 124.
“Miss De Blois has”: ibid.
Chapter 10: Devilish Fighting Fellow
We are alarmed: Fairfield Museum, “The Battle of Ridgefield: April 27, 1777.” American Revolution & Colonial Life Programs. https://www.fairfieldhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/BattleofRidgefield.pdf.
“General Wooster is in our”: Hatch, Thrust for Canada, 210.
“leave all the western”: Robert F. McDevitt, Connecticut Attacked: A British Viewpoint, Tryon’s Raid on Danbury (Chester, CT: Pequot Press, 1974), 11.
“stupid, cowardly”: Brumwell, Turncoat, 78.
“being a very zealous”: McDevitt, Connecticut, 38.
“the streets, in many”: George E. Scheer, ed., Private Yankee Doodle (Boston: Little, Brown, 1962), 63.
“Come on, my boys”: McDevitt, Connecticut, 52.
“the best disposition”: ibid., 60.
“You are my prisoner”: Malcolm, The Tragedy, 182.
“as soon as they were”: McDevitt, Connecticut, 61.
“Mr. Arnold endeavored”: ibid.
“Here again,”: Silvio A. Bedini, Ridgefield in Review (Ridgefield, CT: Ridgefield 250th Anniversary Committee, 1958), 85.
“having completely”: William Edgar Grumman, The Revolutionary Soldiers of Redding: Connecticut and the Record of Their Services (Hartford, CT: Hartford Press, 1904), 51.
“the spirit of opposition”: McDevitt, Connecticut, 66.
“pleasing proof that”: Brumwell, Turncoat, 81.
“many of the officers”: ibid., 81.
“tho ignorant of”: McDevitt, Connecticut, 47.
“the enemy gives”: Brumwell, Turncoat, 82.
“General Arnold’s promotion”: Arnold, The Life, 134.
“But what will be done”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 323.
Chapter 11: A Faithful Soldier
“I longed more”: John E. Ferling, “‘Oh That I Was a Soldier’: John Adams and the Anguish of War.” American Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Summer 1984), 259.
“violent and ill-founded”: Flexner, The Traitor, 114.
“a man of honour”: Carl Van Doren, Secret History of the American Revolution (New York: The Viking Press, 1941), 155–56.
“put to death by fire”: Flexner, The Traitor, 115.
“Money is this man’s”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 324.
“more than he chooses”: ibid.
“It is universally”: ibid., 325.
“his vigilance”: Brumwell, Turncoat, 82.
“sufficient to make”: Philbrick, Valiant, 99.
“every sacrifice”: Brumwell, Turncoat, 84.
“gallant conduct”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 325.
“assassinate the”: Brumwell, Turncoat, 85.
“given entire”: ibid., 85.
“deprived of his rank”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 333.
“that in voting”: ibid., 305.
“Morals, his Honour”: Richard D. Brown, “Where Have All the Great Men Gone?” American Heritage, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Feb./Mar. 1984). https://www.americanheritage.com/where-have-all-great-men-gone.
“one people, embarked”: George Washington, “From George Washington to John Banister, 21 April 1778.” Founders Online. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-14-02-0525.
“I think it betrays”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 311.
“I have no fears”: Brown, “Where Have All the Great Men Gone?”
“I am wearied to death”: Randall, Arnold, 336.
“a number of junior”: Brandt, The Man, 124–25.
Chapter 12: Or Die in the Attempt
“an event of chagrin”: Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 301.
“I think we shall never”: John S. Pancake, 1777: The Year of the Hangman (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1977), 125.
“I have beat them”: Richard M. Ketchum, Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War (New York: Henry Holt, 1999), 206.
“if General Arnold”: Arnold, The Life, 138.
“have directed you”: Malcolm, The Tragedy, 194.
“I shall be happy”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 343.
“for the present”: Philbrick, Valiant, 124.
“From his activity”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 344.
“march of annihilation”: Max Von Eelking, ed., Memoirs, and Letters and Journals, of Major General Riedesel during His Residence in America (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1808), 125.
“the cursed war hoop”: Philbrick, Valiant, 123.
“we are daily insulted”: Brandt, The Man, 126.
“our picket at Ft. Edward”: Philbrick, Valiant, 125–26.
“will forever stain”: Kevin J. Weddle, The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), 175.
“not be a disgrace”: ibid., 188.
“The flag was sufficiently”: Philbrick, Valiant, 131.
“I am apprehensive”: Richard V. Polhemus and John F. Polhemus, Stark: The Life and Wars of John Stark, French and Indian War Ranger, Revolutionary War General (Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press, 2014), 239.
“I do not yet despond”: Pancake, 1777, 139.
“The great bulk”: ibid., 145.
“restore our affairs”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 355.
“done everything”: ibid., 353.
“It gives me great”: Gavin K. Watt, Rebellion in the Mohawk Valley: The St. Leger Expedition of 1777 (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2002), 221.
“put every soul”: ibid., 228.
“a certain Barry St. Leger”: ibid., 238.
“not to hazard our little”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 365.
“determined, at all”: Flexner, The Traitor, 166.
“You will hear”: Weddle, The Compleat, 213.
“seized upon officers’”: Pancake, 1777, 145.
“St. Leger with his”: Weddle, The Compleat, 215.
“a piece of flesh”: Chip Twellman Haley, “‘Siege Baby’ Was Born at Fort Stanwix as British Bombed.” Rome Sentinel, September 6, 2020. https://romesentinel.com/stories/siege-baby-was-born-at-fort-stanwix-as-british-bombed,103347.
“on account of”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 356.
“it was really”: ibid.
“not because he was”: Flexner, The Traitor, 167.
“no public or private”: Arnold, The Life, 267.
“Our people are”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 268.
Chapter 13: Freeman’s Farm
“in very imperfect”: Ketchum, Saratoga, 354–55.
“one of the Greatest”: Weddle, The Compleat, 286.
“reminding one”: Paul David Nelson, General Horatio Gates: A Biography (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976), 114.
“burned with”: Martin, Benedict Arnold, 373.
“reduced to a scene”: ibid.
“This Army must”: Dean Snow, 1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), 76.
“the great tacticians”: William A. Griswold and Donald W. Linebaugh, eds., The Saratoga Campaign: Uncovering an Embattled Landscape (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2016), 105.
“beyond the nice”: Nelson, General Horatio, 6.
“defend the main”: Weddle, The Compleat, 264.
“hang on their front”: Snow, 1777, 84.
“my opinion”: John Luzader, Saratoga: A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution (El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2014), 388.
“observe their direction”: Snow, 1777, 162.
“choked up with”: Rupert Furneaux, The Battle of Saratoga (New York: Stein and Day, 1971), 173.
“Boys, shoot”: Snow, 1777, 91.
“The engagement”: John Scales, Life of Gen. Joseph Cilley (Manchester, NH: Standard Book, 1921), 32.
