Benedict Arnold
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Benedict Arnold V (January 14, 1741 – June 14, 1801) originally fought for American independence from the British Empire as a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War until he obtained command of the American fort at West Point, New York and, switching sides, plotted unsuccessfully to surrender it to the British.
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- We have but very indifferent men in general. Great part of those who ship for seamen know very little of the matter.
- Letter to General Gates (1776-09-07), in Peter Sailly Palmer, Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 (1876) p. 5.
- The drafts from the regiments at Ticonderoga are a miserable set; indeed the men on board the fleet, in general, are not equal to half their number of good men.
- We have a wretched motley crew, in the fleet; the marines the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt water.
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- What do you think would be my fate if my misguided countrymen were to take me prisoner?
- Asked to a captured captain from the Colonial Army. The captain is said to have replied, "They would cut off the leg that was wounded at Saratoga and bury it with the honors of war, and the rest of you they would hang on a gibbet." Clifton Johnson, The Picturesque Hudson (1915).
- Let me die in this old uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive me for ever having put on another.
- Unverifiable, but reportedly said by Arnold on his deathbed in 1801, requesting to wear the uniform of the Colonial Army from before his defection to the British. Clifton Johnson, The Picturesque Hudson (1915).
