The GeneralChapter 5
This chapter and the next chapter 6 describe the events leading up to the assumption of command at West Point and the actual events as they occurred when the discovery of Major General Benedict Arnold's defection reached the American commander, General George Washington. Some of the details in the next two chapters are based on informed speculation on the part of the author but then History is often "spun" in one direction or another depending on the agendas of powerful people in...