This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Benedict Arnold, the OG traitor, who was a major general of the American Continental Army during the Revolutionary War...all before selling out and switching sides to join the British Army. And this wasn’t any old betrayal; Arnold had been given command of West Point under George Washington (who trusted him completely) and then, when his plans to surrender West Point to the British were foiled, he fled to British lines and would end up leading their army against the country that he had just betrayed.

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