On this Day: 1780
On this day in 1780, Benedict Arnold committed treason, attempting to sell plans for the West Point military fortress. Arnold had hoped to get a very large sum of money and a high position of the British army, but it had been foiled and he was later labeled treason. He was a former American hero, but now is being called a traitor, because of this heinous attempt to hurt the newly formed U.S. We had almost lost our in-future largest military academy to the British. What he did was, and will be labeled as an act of treason against the U.S.