Arnold, Benedict, an American military general, entered the ranks of the colonists under Washington during the War of Independence, distinguished himself in several engagements, promoted to the rank of general, negotiated with the English general Clinton to surrender an important post entrusted to him, escaped to the English ranks on the discovery of the plot, and served in them against his country; d. in England in 1801.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Arnobius * Arnold, Matthew