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Homegrown Terror - Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London (Paperback)
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Homegrown Terror - Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London (Paperback)
Series: The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
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List price R562
Loot Price R417
Discovery Miles 4 170
You Save R145 (26%)
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On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict Arnold and a
force of 1,600 British soldiers and loyalists took Fort Griswold
and burnt New London to the ground. The brutality of the invasion
galvanized the new nation, and "Remember New London!" would become
a rallying cry for troops under General Lafayette. In Homegrown
Terror, Eric D. Lehman chronicles the events leading up to the
attack and highlights this key transformation in Arnold-the point
where he went from betraying his comrades to massacring his
neighbors and destroying their homes. This defining incident
forever marked him as a symbol of evil, turning an antiheroic story
about weakness of character and missed opportunity into one about
the nature of treachery itself. Homegrown Terror draws upon a
variety of perspectives, from the traitor himself to his former
comrades like Jonathan Trumbull and Silas Deane, to the murdered
Colonel Ledyard. Rethinking Benedict Arnold through the lens of
this terrible episode, Lehman sheds light on the ethics of the
dawning nation, and the way colonial America responded to betrayal
and terror.
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