Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 58: July, 1923 Arnold had worked out plans for the capture of West Point, the key to the Hudson. The prisoner was taken at once to Washington, and hanged as a spy. The Americans tried to capture Arnold, but this arch traitor escaped. Joined the enemy and in anger led a British army over into his home state, Connecticut, where he burned New London, near his birthplace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.