"Benedict Arnold Is America’s Most Famous Traitor. But..." Topic

… You Probably Don't Know His Whole Story

"s accusations of treachery continue to swirl around Washington and the White House, it's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the specter of a stocky, limping, figure dressed in the tricorn hat and long-tailed coat of a Revolutionary War officer.

Treason has become a talking point on both sides of the aisle. The chaotic fallout from President Trump's recent Helsinki summit with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, prompted former CIA director John Brennan to describe Trump's behavior as "nothing short of treasonous" — and on Monday, Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani mentioned by name the man who, in American history, is synonymous with that idea. "George Washington would have said that about Benedict Arnold at a certain point in time," Giuliani said during a CNN interview, by way of explaining his earlier praise of Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen. "George Washington didn't know that Benedict Arnold was a traitor."…"
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He had me at 'tricorn'

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Amicalement
Armand

If you visit the battlefield at Saratoga, there is a monument -- a marble boot -- where Arnold's leg is buried, and it is inscribed to the "hero of Saratoga". But Arnold's name is not shown anywhere.

You can do a bing image search -- saratoga arnold boot.

I think Arnold kept his leg but quipped that if he had been taken by the rebel forces, they would have cut the leg off and hung the rest of him- (or something similar).

(It was Lord Uxbridge's leg that acquired a tourist shrine in the garden where it was buried at Mont St Jean)