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Benedict Arnold's Plan for West Point
Benedict arnold had little reason to believe that the americans were fighting a winning war, and he remained in desperate need of cash. In may 17 80, he renewed contact with the british spy, john andre it made it clear he was ready to take decisive action. They formulated a plan for arnold to seek command of west point, a qey us fort on the hudson river. Once in charge, arnold would hand over the fort and its three thousand troops to thebritish. The british would give arnold an enormous bounty of 20 thousand pounds, equal to five million dollars in to day's money.
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