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20 de may. de 2024 · Arnold met Peggy Shippen, daughter of a wealthy Loyalist, at one of these social functions. Peggy was only eighteen and Benedict thirty-seven when they met. He went into debt courting her and gaining her father’s approval for their marriage. Peggy introduced him to Major John André.
Hace 6 días · Meanwhile, in April 1779, he married Margaret (Peggy) Shippen, a young woman of loyalist sympathies. Benedict Arnold's meeting with British Major John André American Gen. Benedict Arnold (seated), commander of West Point, pointing to the boot of British Major John André to suggest it as a place to conceal plans regarding Arnold's ...
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- Benedict Arnold was a patriot officer who served the cause of the American Revolution until 1779, when he shifted his allegiance to the British.
- Benedict Arnold betrayed the Continental Army to the British when he made secret overtures to British headquarters in May 1779 and, a year later, i...
- Benedict Arnold was unhappy with his position in the Continental Army by the time he betrayed the cause of the American Revolution to the British....
- After Benedict Arnold betrayed the Continental Army, his British contact, Major John André, was captured by the Americans and hanged as a spy while...
- “Benedict Arnold” is an epithet for “traitor” in the United States; calling a person a “Benedict Arnold” implies that they are a traitor.
9 de may. de 2024 · Peggy Shippen, wife of Benedict Arnold and probably a reason why he betrayed America. James Armistead, a slave who managed to becone free by spying on the British. Joseph Plumb Martin, an American soldier whose memoirs are treasured by historians precisely because he was just a normal soldier.
9 de may. de 2024 · The tomb where Arnold is buried with his wife, Peggy Shippen and their daughter, Sophia Matilda Phipps, was marked at the time only with the names of the three painted on the basement's brick...
14 de may. de 2024 · Peggy Shippen, AAUW Salem Branch Public Policy Chair In the middle is crew supervisor, Milan, giving instructions. AAUW presented a plaque honoring donors and participants in this unique project. Peggy did the unveiling and read what was on the plaque.
15 de may. de 2024 · Catalog: "Reveals the true story of Peggy Shippen, Benedict Arnold's wife and socialite who used her connections within both American and British society to help her husband, Benedict Arnold, and friend, John Andre, plot against the colonists during the Revolutionary War."
21 de may. de 2024 · As the War for Independence waged on, American General Benedict Arnold struggled to cope with increasing financial debt and injury. He had taken massive loans to marry the beautiful Peggy Shippen, and received a bullet in the leg in battle.
