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He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus, and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing?
He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. At a blast, cruising around the festival weekend in the all-new Palisade Hybrid.
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as that of Benedict Arnold. Here's Greg Hengler. with the story. Benedict Arnold is hands down America's most infamous turncoat. He has been dead for over 200 years and his name is still shorthand for trader.
As we've seen exemplified in movies like Grumpier Old Men. In spite of his ultimate deception, Benedict Arnold remains one of the most gifted generals America has ever known. In May of seventeen seventy five, Arnold led an attack on the remote British outpost at Fort Ticonderoga. Quick-tempered and strong-willed, Arnold joined forces and immediately clashed with Ethan Allen. The leader of a small militia of frontiersmen known as the Green Mountain Boys.
The fort is captured thanks mostly to Benedict Arnold, that forces the British to abandon Boston. Both Alan and Arnold were wrote extensive reports about the events to the colonial committees. But they only accepted Alan's glorified version that barely mentions Arnold. This would be the beginning of a pattern in Arnold's military career. That would repeat itself.
Arnold is later given the impossible task. defending New York's Lake Champlain from attack. He constructs the first American naval fleet of 15 small warvessels to engage the British at Valcourt Island in October of 1776. Although he was not victorious, his efforts not only established the American Navy. but severely delayed the advancement of the world's finest Navy into American territory.
allowing Washington's Army time to rebuild and resupply. In spite of his aggressive and heroic achievements, the Continental Congress refused to recognize Arnold. and he was passed over for promotion in favor of junior officers with far less military achievement. George Washington, who was Arnold's close friend and one of the few men who came to his defense. Took issue with the Continental Congress's decision, rebuking them for making political.
rather than strategic military promotions. In September of seventeen seventy seven, Arnold was placed under the command of Horatio Gates at Saratoga in upstate New York. Gates, while never coming within a mile of the fighting, held Arnold back. confining him to his tent, and refused reinforcements. Defying Gates' orders, Arnold seized a horse and rallied the Americans to victory.
And he took a bullet to the leg and barely survived after being crushed by his own horse.
However, It is this shot that will change the course of history. and nearly alter the course of independence. Here's Arnold biographer Willard Randall. When the battle was over, His Second in command said, Sir, Where are you hit? And Arnold said, It's my leg.
I wish it had been my heart. And I do too. I wish it had been in his heart, because if he had died at that moment he would have been the great hero of the Revolution. Here's historian Paul Hutton. carried from the battlefield.
Terribly wounded. Arnold was immediately placed under arrest. for having disobeyed orders. But the day is one. It's clear to everyone on the battlefield that Benedict Arnold has won the day.
Clear to everyone except Horatio Gates. He denies Arnold credit. He accepts credit. for America's greatest victory. General Washington steps in and entrusts the newly reclaimed city of Philadelphia to Arnold.
He is now the the city's military governor. Away from the battlefield, Arnold takes full advantage of his position. Living opulently while using and abusing his position running shady business deals. in a lively black market. He has served, he has been wounded severely, and so he starts as a governor to take what he thinks is his due.
It is here in April 1779 with a 38-year-old Arnold. Meets and marries a beautiful, flirtatious, and intense 18-year-old from a very wealthy loyalist family. Her name is Peggy Shippin. Here's Arnold Historian. William Stanley Arnold was to the British.
What Rama was to the English. What Patton was to the German In other words, a general who could defeat them. The British wanted Arnold out of there. Without Arnold, they'd win. But Arnold's shady side deals are exposed by the press.
Once again, Arnold faces a slight against his honor. With an impending court-martial and a public rebuke from General Washington. Arnold and his young bride begin exploring options for disaffection. Despite his reprimand, Washington wants to give his brilliant general a field position of honor. But After Arnold suspiciously lobbied strongly for a non-field position at West Point.
In the fall of seventeen eighty, Washington makes him the commander of the strategic American stronghold. known as the Key to the Continent. a fort on the front lines that bears his own name. Fort Arnold. West Point becomes Arnold's key negotiating resource.
Here's former superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Lieutenant General Dave Palmer. West Point was not just a strategic spot. West Point was the strategic spot. in the American Revolution.
Both sides, British and Americans, agreed on one thing. that if the British could ever capture the line of the Hudson, they would probably win the war. It doesn't take long for Arnold's secret plot to be unearthed. causing him to flee West Point a British warship stationed on the Hudson. Ironically, at this same hour, General Washington was en route to West Point to feast with his trusted friend.
Arnold's betrayal is so unexpected. and cuts General Washington so deeply. that after failing to capture Benedict Arnold, Washington proclaimed Arnold has betrayed me. Whom can we trust now? Safely behind British lines.
Benedict Arnold receives his £20,000 ransom payment and a commission as Brigadier General of 1,600 troops in His Majesty's Army. Benjamin Franklin remarked, Judas sold only one man, Arnold. Three million. Benedict Arnold's treason united the 13 colonies and increased their enlistments and re-enlistments in ways that neither he nor the British could have ever foreseen. Benedict Arnold died in London in 1801 at the age of sixty.
A spiritually financially An emotionally broken man. There's a monument on the battlefield at Saratoga National Park. the site of his greatest victory, a boot statue commemorating the permanent wounds General Benedict Arnold sustained with the inscription In memory of the most brilliant soldier of the Continental Army. who was desperately wounded on this spot. Winning for his countrymen the decisive battle of the American Revolution.
And for himself, the The rank of Major General. The monument bears no name. And there's good reason. Because there is a law in America passed by the Congress that you can neither chisel the name Benedict Donald or mold it in metal.
So I mean, they took the sky right off the face of the earth. Here's former military historian at West Point. Major John Hall. Were it not for his treason, he would almost undoubtedly be one of the most celebrated American commanders of all of the American Revolution. West Point to this day would probably still be called Fort Arnold.
Rather than West Point. And great job, as always, to Greg Hengler and to all the supporters and contributors to this show. Benedict Arnold's story here on Our American Stories. Did you know Tide has been upgraded to provide an even better, clean and cold water? Tide is specifically designed to fight any stain you throw at it.
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He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing?
He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. At a blast, cruising around the festival weekend in the all-new Palisade Hybrid.
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