What exactly was the story of the first traitor? …show more content…
Agreeing to a commission from the revolutionary government of Massachusetts, Arnold partnered with a frontiersman from Vermont named Ethan Allen, and Allen’s people to capture the unsuspecting British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga in New York on May 10 of 1775. Later that year, Arnold led a doomed expedition on an agonizing journey from Maine, to Quebec. The purpose of the mission was to group the occupants of Canada behind the Patriot cause, and bare the British government of a northern base from which to mount strikes into the 13 colonies. Early in the battle, Arnold received a wound to his leg and was taken to the back of the battlefield. The fight continued, but failed horribly. Hundreds of American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken captive, and Canada remained in British