He might be going to Rhode Island or to Boston but he might also dash up the Hudson.
It was an anxious leader who, with La Fayette and Alexander Hamilton, rode away from headquarters to Hartford.
The officer in command at West Point was Benedict Arnold.

No general on the American side had a more brilliant record or could show more scars of battle.

We have seen him leading an army through the wilderness to Quebec, and incurring hardships almost incredible.

Later he is found on Lake Champlain, fighting on both land and water.

When in the next year the Americans succeeded at Saratoga it was Arnold who bore the brunt of the fighting.