240 Years Ago Today Benedict Arnold Committed Treason And Inspired A Delicious Breakfast Maybe
It was 240 years ago today, during the height of the American Revolution, when Arnold, a well-respected general in the American army from a high-society Connecticut family, met with British Major John Andre to concoct the ultimate scheme that would have placed West Point—perhaps the most important post in U.S. during the Revolutionary War that later became the famous home of the U.S. military academy—into the hands of the British army....