and peggy shippen.y introduce general benedict arnold, military commander of philadelphia? >> it is my utmost pleasure to be introduced to you, miss shippen, and an honor to meet you, judge shippen. >> you participated in the victory at saratoga. >> yes, sir. i led charges in both battles. >> i believe general howe has mentioned you by name. >> he may be a wounded warrior, which she may have felt sorry for him, and he is a person who has command presence. he is a major figure at this point in the revolution. >> against her father's wishes, arnold marries peggy shippen and buys her a 94-acre estate, a wedding gift that pushes him deep into debt. >> ah! >> ahh! benedict, it's...oh, it's absolutely stunning. it must have cost a small fortune. >> ahem. general arnold? >> ah, news of our happiness has already spread. >> he uses and abuses his position as an officer in philadelphia for his own kind of side business, and for that he actually gets brought up on charges. and that actually begins the disaffection

arnold would marry peggy shippen, 18, half his age with loyalist leanings. while the british had briefly occupied philadelphia, she had gotten to know some british officers, one of whom was major john andre who became head of the british spy network, and the rest would be history when arnold decided that it was time for him to turn over west point to the british. it would not be successful, but it would be word of -- arnold would escape in new york, eventually joined by peggy, and, you know, the british accepted him. but he was a traitor. you know, and traitors on either side are tainted. and the irony of the story, and i'd like to finish by reading a few, a paragraph or two from my epilogue. the irony of this is, you know, arnold in the first years of the war, short of washington, had done more than any american for the american cause. but it would be as a traitor where he, you could argue that he served his former country the most, in the most important fashion. because this was a galvanizing moment to america. americans were forced to realize in 1780, by

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