"NEVER SINCE THE FALL OF LUCIFER has a fall equaled his," was the JL verdict of Nathanael Greene on his comrade-turned-traitor,
Benedict Arnold. Arnold's 1780 defection to the British during the depths of the Revolutionary War seemed cosmic for several reasons.
(1) NATHANIEL PHILBRICK, VALIANT AMBITION: GEORGE WASHINGTON,
BENEDICT ARNOLD AND THE FATE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (2016).
Americans with a modicum of historical knowledge (an increasingly smaller percentage of the general population) are aware of this in a vague, general fashion usually limited to name recognition of Nathan Hale and
Benedict Arnold. But the story involves much more and many more people.
Y Since his departure from successful police drama The Mentalist, in which he played FBI Agent Wayne Rigsby, he Rigsby, he W has married for a second time and will become a father for the first time next year with jewellery designer wife, Gigi Yallouz, Y Professionally the Rhymney Valley via Chepstow native is also experiencing a fruitful year with a part in Clint Eastwood's next big movie, American Sniper, and he's braving the role of possibly America's most hated traitor
Benedict Arnold in AMC's revolutionary drama Turn: Washington's Spies.
WELSH actor Owain Yeoman has landed a starring role in a hit American Revolutionary War drama playing hated US "traitor"
Benedict Arnold.
It has the oldest fossilized coral in the world and a rich cultural history, including the claim that
Benedict Arnold started the American Navy there in 1775.1 have found arrowheads in farm fields where Native Americans camped before colonial times, have dived on shipwrecks preserved in the cold take waters, and spent many nights mesmerized by sunsets, shooting stars, and the Northern Lights above the lake.
As just one example among many, he vividly reenacts the saga of
Benedict Arnold's flight from the region in 1780 when his treason was uncovered.
The reason for this ire was a 12-second scene in which Waked locked lips with his co-star, Scarlett Johansson, she of the SodaStream campaign, which, in the crazy intersection of Internet hyperbole and political idiocy, was enough to make Waked a
Benedict Arnold to the Palestinian cause.
* What if General
Benedict Arnold had not turned himself into "Admiral" Arnold on Lake Champlain?
Benedict Arnold in the company of heroes; the lives of the extraordinary patriots who followed Arnold to Canada at the start of the American Revolution.
They are a disloyal ally, a
Benedict Arnold friend," Poe said.
Among his other books are George Washington and
Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots, George Washington: First in War, and Summons of the Trumpet: U.S.-Vietnam in Perspective.