CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAO. YOUTH AND EARLY MANHOOD. 7 TAKING OP TICONDEROGA, IN THE WILDERNESS, GOING AGAINST QUEBEC, . ... CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. - CHAPTER V. 28 51 . .80 FIRST NAVAL KATTLE WITH ENGLAND, .... 106 1 VI INJUSTICE TO ARNOLD, THE NORTHEEN ARMY. ARNOLD AT PHILADELPHIA, CONTENTS. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. THE BATTLES OF BEMIS HEIGHTS, PLOTTING TREASON, TAKEN IN THE TOILS, ANDRES EXECUTION, A TRAITORS BARBARITIES, CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. PAOB. 129 152 170 197 213 237 258 279 BENEDICT ARNOLD. CHAPTER I. YOUTH AND EARLY MANHOOD. ATRAITOR is despised of all the world. I have stated in my preface, that it is the design of the Biographical Series of which this volume is a part, to furnish from the pages of theworlds history a few examples of true manhood, lofty purpose, and persevering effort, such as may be safely held up either for the admi- ration or emulation of the youth of the present day and Iam sure it is needless to add that the life of Benedict Arnold offers no such example. On the contrary, his memory will be detested as long as time shall help to keep it alive. Yet it is not impossible that the highest forms of manhood may be studied, sometimes, by the