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The traitor's wife, the woman behind Benedict Arnold and the plan to betray America, Allison Pataki

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The traitor's wife, the woman behind Benedict Arnold and the plan to betray America, Allison Pataki

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eng

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fiction

Main title

The traitor's wife

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876004695

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Allison Pataki

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print historical Christian fiction

Sub title

the woman behind Benedict Arnold and the plan to betray America

Summary

Everyone knows Benedict Arnold -- the Revolutionary War general who betrayed America and fled to the British -- as history's most notorious turncoat. Many know Arnold's co-conspirator, Major John Andre, who was apprehended with Arnold's documents in his boots and hanged at the orders of General George Washington. But few know of the integral third character in the plot: a charming young woman who not only contributed to the betrayal but orchestrated it. Socialite Peggy Shippen is half Benedict Arnold's age when she seduces the war hero during his stint as military commander of Philadelphia. Blinded by his young bride's beauty and wit, Arnold does not realize that she harbors a secret: loyalty to the British. Nor does he know that she hides a past romance with the handsome British spy John Andre. Peggy watches as her husband, crippled from battle wounds and in debt from years of service to the colonies, grows ever more disillusioned with his hero, Washington, and the American cause. Together with her former love and her disaffected husband, Peggy hatches the plot to deliver West Point to the British and, in exchange, win fame and fortune for herself and Arnold. Told from the perspective of Peggy's maid, whose faith in the new nation inspires her to intervene in her mistress's affairs even when it could cost her everything, The Traitor's Wife brings these infamous figures to life, illuminating the sordid details and the love triangle that nearly destroyed the American fight for freedom

Table Of Contents

Prologue: "All Is Lost" -- West Point Fort, September 25, 1780 -- Chapter One: "Never Anger Miss Peggy" -- Philadelphia, May 1778 -- Chapter Three: "Arnold Will Always Be My Enemy" -- Philadelphia, June 1778 -- Chapter Four: "The Most Beautiful Little Patriot in All Thirteen Colonies" -- Philadelphia, July 1778 -- Chapter Five: "Stuck in the Mud" -- Philadelphia, November 1778 -- Chapter Six: "There is Another Way" -- Philadelphia, December 1779 -- Chapter Seven: "Too Far Down This Path" -- West Point, June 1780 -- Chapter Eight: "The Biggest Fish of Them All" -- West Point, August 1780 -- Chapter Nine: "In Whom Can We Trust? -- West Point, September 1780 -- Epilogue

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