The Treason of Benedict Arnold

benedict arnold was an easily disgruntled hothead who could find a way to rub practically everyone the wrong way. Arnold's numerous enemies took as the reputation he had earned over the years for making sure that every campaign was a profitable campaign, if you know what i mean. His conduct as governor of philadelphia only increased the volume of those whispers. He lived in lavish style and got into the business of transporting war material around the continental army,. which wasn't illegal, but it did run him foul of local merchants whose business he was cutting into. The courtship of peggy shipton, who was about to become young missus arnold also moved arnold into