Benedict Arnold

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by Karah O'Malley1 view·Updated Dec 6, 2021
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  1. today, I will be reporting on the notorious Benedict Arnold.
  2. Benedict Arnold was a villain and here's why
  3. Mr Arnold had a quick temper
  4. when he didn't get his way, he would act out
  5. As it says on point # five
  6. in our nine things, you may not know about, Benedict Arnold, it states
  7. He had been stung by Continental Congress decision
  8. to promote five Junior officers ahead of him
  9. and he believed fellow soldiers such as Ethan Allen and Horrocks.
  10. Ceo Gates had tried to smear his reputation and
  11. take credit for his successes on the battlefield.
  12. So this kind of fueled his fire to even more because he wanted to
  13. do this high figure and he wasn't getting that recognition he thought he deserved.
  14. So that was our first point and now our second point,
  15. he went against the Continental Army.
  16. So when you're a soldier, you know, all the secret bases where they keep everything,
  17. you know, tips about the skills people have and the training that they,
  18. people go through and going again something and being a spy,
  19. technically for the british was something that then Mcdonald did.
  20. So he switched to the british army and gave important
  21. and secret information to the british about the Continental Army.
  22. And then our third reason is that he wanted to be a high official.
  23. So his goal throughout all of his
  24. um life was that he wanted the recognition that he thought he had deserved.
  25. So, I moved to british to get that, but he ended up not being welcomed,
  26. as it says on page four of our nineties,
  27. you may not know about Benedict Benedict Arnold, it says,
  28. Having only received 6000 of the £20,000 he demanded for switching sides,
  29. Arnold eventually resumed his old career as a
  30. merchant ship owner in Canada and the Caribbean.
  31. So when Benedict Arnold decided that he was going to be a spy and
  32. a soldier for the british providing the
  33. important information about the continental Army,
  34. this really affected him because it was something that he was
  35. going against and I bet he probably had a good heart,
  36. you know, deep on the inside,
  37. so he wanted something to make up for what he was going to lose.
  38. Like
  39. if he finds out, if someone gets find out it's um
  40. treason and he would
  41. Get punished. So he asked for £20,000, which is money.
  42. Now, when he wasn't even given half of that, he only like 1/3 of that,
  43. not even,
  44. he decided that he would
  45. take it into little hands,
  46. so, being a selfish person that he was,
  47. he decided to go back to his whole career as
  48. a ship owner and he quit being a double sided doing
  49. and that concludes why the notorious stomach Arnold wasn't oven