베네딕트 아놀드

소개

베네딕트 아널드(영어: Benedict Arnold, 1741년 1월 14일 – 1801년 6월 14일)는 미국 독립 전쟁에 참전한 군인이었다. 아널드는 독립 전쟁 초기에 대륙군(Continental Army)으로 참전했으나, 대륙군을 배반하고 영국군에 참전했다.

Benedict Arnold 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. General George Washington had given him his fullest trust and had placed him in command of West Point in New York. Arnold was planning to surrender the fort to British forces, but the plot was discovered in September 1780, whereupon he fled to the British lines. In the later part of the war, Arnold was commissioned as a brigadier general in the British Army and placed in command of the American Legion. He led British forces in battle against the army which he had once commanded, and his name became synonymous with treason and betrayal in the United States.