Benedict Arnold

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headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On September 19th, they sailed for the Kennebec River from Newburyport on eleven schooners, and on the twentieth, they camped on Swan Island in Merrymeeting Bay. Some of the men, along with the supplies, continued up the Kennebec in a bateaux, and the rest continued along on foot (Encarta).
By September 23rd, they had arrived at Fort Western. They continued marching to Fort Halifax in Winslow, where today there is a rock in Lithgow Street, marking where they stopped. Continuing, they reached Ticonic Falls in Waterville, and on October 3rd reached Skowhegan Falls. They went on to Caruntunk Falls in Solon on October 8th, and on October 15th Arnold and his troops paddled to the Dead River (Comptons).
This is considered one of the most grueling and heartbreaking times in history. Literally within a week, most of their food was spoiled. The men were forced to eat their leather pouches and moccasins, sometimes brewing the leather to ...

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at the garrison was under way, which Arnold immediately joined in to. Being the most junior officer, he was asked to speak first (Encarta).
He explained that while fighting in Canada he had learned of the English strategy on winning the war. London generals decided to split the colonies in half by sending two forces in behind and around America. One of these armies would push off from Montreal and sail down Lake Champlain, Lake George, and into the Hudson River with ten thousand British solders, two thousand German mercenaries, four thousand Iroquois Indians, and one thousand Canadian conscripts to help clear their path. To carry these people, twenty-five ships had been constructed ...

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