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American Revolution Podcast

Episode 076 Arnold's March to Quebec

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Benedict Arnold leads a force across the New England wilderness to attack Quebec from an unexpected direction. More than half of his force does not make it through the deadly march. Visit https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this week's episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today episode 76, Arnold's March toward Quebec.

0:53.8

So a few episodes ago, I mentioned that General Washington had met with Arnold at Cambridge.

1:00.6

Washington had taken a liking to Arnold, despite the fact that most people who interacted with Arnold thought he had

1:06.0

pretty much no political or diplomatic skills.

1:09.0

Those who admired him did so mostly because of his fighting ability, not because of his personality.

1:16.1

And those who hated him, well, that was a problem of his personality.

1:20.7

Washington, as I said, seemed to admire the fact that Arnold was a good fighting soldier.

1:26.0

Arnold had proven his energy and ability when he and Ethan Allen had captured Fort Ticonderoga and Lake Champlain, denying the British in Canada an invasion route to the south.

1:37.2

But as I said at the same time Arnold's abrasive style made him quite a few enemies among his fellow officers as well as the politicians

1:46.4

who appointed new officers. Washington however needed can-do officers who could act on their

1:52.3

own initiative and who had shown bravery in battle.

1:55.4

Arnold was just such a man. By fall, Arnold and everyone else were following the movements of

2:02.2

General Skyler and Montgomery

2:04.3

as they recaptured most of the territory that Arnold had already captured and then had

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