Excerpt from Benedict Arnold's Regimental Memorandum Book: Written While at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 1775 The events of which it treats are among the most important in the annals of the Revolution, while the subsequent career of its writer gives a mournful interest to all connected with that portion of his life in which his devotion to his country was unquestioned. It has been said that depriving him of command on the lakes was the first of a series of acts of injustice which resulted in his inexcusable crime. We ...
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Excerpt from Benedict Arnold's Regimental Memorandum Book: Written While at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 1775 The events of which it treats are among the most important in the annals of the Revolution, while the subsequent career of its writer gives a mournful interest to all connected with that portion of his life in which his devotion to his country was unquestioned. It has been said that depriving him of command on the lakes was the first of a series of acts of injustice which resulted in his inexcusable crime. We cannot agree with this con elusion. His own self-wilfulness was the cause of his removal, and led eventually to his everlasting disgrace. It would be an act of insignificance to re ect on one who has fallen so low in human estimation as Arnold has, were it not. That the brilliant qualities he at times displayed are calculated to make us lose sight of a violent and unprincipled nature, which would cause the downfall of any man who possessed it, and attribute his short comings to disappointments engendered by the injustice and narrow mindedness of the authorities he served. That our readers may understand the circumstances under which the following memorandums were written, we will as brie y as possible review those which led Arnold to Ticonderoga and to his removal from command. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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