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Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor is a 2003 American television film directed by Mikael Salomon and starring Aidan Quinn, Kelsey Grammer, Flora Montgomery and John Light.It portrays the career of Benedict Arnold in the American Revolutionary War and his dramatic switch in 1780 from fighting for American Independence to being a Loyalist trying to preserve British rule in America.
In 1780 General Benedict Arnold commands the Continental Army defenses at West Point, New York.Major John Bolton (Cornel Wilde), a dragoon officer assigned to counterintelligence, intercepts and kills a British spy leaving the Storm King Tavern, and captures a letter found on his body.
Arnold left for a business opportunity in 1784 and sent to Connecticut for his three sons Benedict, Richard, and Henry (by his first wife) to join him in Saint John, New Brunswick. During Arnold's stay in New Brunswick, Peggy Shippen Arnold gave birth to their third surviving child Sophia Matilda Arnold, while her husband may have fathered an ...
Benedict Arnold (January 14, 1741 [O.S. January 3, 1740] [1] [a] – June 14, 1801) was an American-born British military officer who served during the American Revolutionary War. He fought with distinction for the American Continental Army and rose to the rank of major general before defecting to the British in 1780.
A portrait of Major John Andre remains upside down at the '76 House in Tappan. General George Washington turned it over when Andre was hung as a spy after giving the plans of West Point to ...
JJ Feild as Major John André (seasons 1–3) Ksenia Solo as Peggy Shippen (seasons 2–4) [1] Ian Kahn as General George Washington (recurring season 1, main seasons 2–4) [6] Owain Yeoman as General Benedict Arnold (seasons 2–4) [1] Nick Westrate as Robert Townsend (recurring season 2, main seasons 3–4) [1]
Agent 355 was best known for providing the intelligence that led to the capture of the treasonous Benedict Arnold. [59] While some sources make note of Agent 355 as an intelligence gatherer, others believe the code number simply referred to Anna Strong , or was a misunderstanding of a cryptic reference in one of Abraham Woodhull's letters.
John Paulding (October 16, 1758 – February 18, 1818) was an American militiaman from the state of New York during the American Revolution. In 1780, he was one of three men who captured Major John André, a British spy associated with the treason of Continental general and commandant of West Point Benedict Arnold. Andre was convicted and ...