Description
Before Benedict Arnold was once branded a traitor, he was once some of the colonies’ such a lot valuable leaders. In September 1775, eleven hundred soldiers boarded ships in Massachusetts, bound for the Maine wilderness. They’d volunteered for a secret mission, under Arnold’s command to march and paddle nearly 2 hundred miles and grab British Quebec. Before they reached the Canadian border, hundreds died, a hurricane destroyed canoes and equipment and plenty of deserted. In the course of a howling blizzard, the remainder troops attacked Quebec and almost took Canada from the British concurrently weakening the British hand against Washington. With the enigmatic Benedict Arnold at its center, Tom Desjardin has written some of the great American adventure stories.