Benedict Arnold’s Other Story The story of Benedict Arnold's heroism on behalf of America, especially on Lake Champlain, is largely unknown, and it's the story we want to tell here. We'll leave those dark facts of his later defection and traitorous ways to historians. He gets plenty of bad press there...and deserves it too. As the American Revolution began, Arnold volunteered to lead 1000 men up through the woods of Maine to attack British …showed first 75 words of 1525 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1525 total…deeply into his own purse to pay expenses, he was never reimbursed for most of them, nor honored by Congress for his victories. Crestfallen and melancholy, he was approached by a smooth-spoken spy for the British. Arnold made the worst decision of his life...he switched sides. He died in England, at age 60, and was buried in a "jumbled, unmarked grave" without military honor or notice. His last years were full of misery and bitterness.