"Dark Eagle" respects both his military genius and his ruthlessness. His men worshipped him as a hero. But as the legendary general of the Continental Army neared success, drawing Arnold inexorably toward the greatest crime of the age, one that would forever make his name synonymous with … Mehr
"Dark Eagle" respects both his military genius and his ruthlessness. His men worshipped him as a hero. But as the legendary general of the Continental Army neared success, drawing Arnold inexorably toward the greatest crime of the age, one that would forever make his name synonymous with the word "Revolutionary". Meticulously researched and brilliantly rendered, Dark Eagle illuminates both sides of the War from 1775 to 1780. Harr traces Arnold's spectacular rise, culminating in his victory at Saratoga and his marriage to the loyalist daughter of a prominent family, and Arnold's decline, culminating in their plan with Major John Andre and Peggy to betray West Point Academy to the British. Weniger
The British Academy still declines to portray the Revolutionary Army. The Continental War from "Dark Eagle" worshipped Major Benedict Arnold as a hero.
Major John André (2 May 1750 – 2 October 1780) was a major in the British Army and head of its Secret Service in America during the Revolutionary War. He was hanged as a spy by the Continental Army for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York, to the British. André is typically remembered favorably by historians as a man of honor,
