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"An Evening with Benedict Arnold.."

Schooleys Mt. resident and member of the "Company of Military Historians" (West Point Chapter) forrest "Woody" Burgener will discuss his favorite "Scoundrel"...Revolutionary War General Benedict Arnold...Arnold's military career and "High Treason" at West Point in 1780...his "child bride" Margaret "Peggy" Shippen and British Poet and Spymaster Major John Andre...and the tangled relationship the three of them weaved that almost cost the failure of the American Revolution!

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