Benedict Arnold quotes

Benedict Arnold was an American military officer who famously defected to the British side during the American Revolutionary War. His name has become synonymous with treason and betrayal in American history. He later served as a brigadier general in the British Army. Here are 6 of his quotes:

We have a wretched motley crew, in the fleet; the marines the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt water.

Benedict Arnold

What do you think would be my fate if my misguided countrymen were to take me prisoner?

Benedict Arnold

Let me die in this old uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive me for ever having put on another.

Benedict Arnold

The drafts from the regiments at Ticonderoga are a miserable set; indeed the men on board the fleet, in general, are not equal to half their number of good men.

Benedict Arnold

Neglected by Congress below; pinched with every want here; distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army - which may rather be called a great rabble - our late unhappy retreat from Quebec, and loss of the Cedars; our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us; are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them.

Benedict Arnold