Valiant ambition George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
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In September 1776, the vulnerable Continenetal Army under an unsure George Washington evacuates New York after a devestating defeat by the British Army. Three weeks later, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeds in postphoning the British naval advance down Lake Champlain. Four years later, Washington has vanquished his demons and Arnold has fled to the enemy after a foiled attempt to surrender the American fortress at West Point to the British. After four years of war, America is forced to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from within.