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[REVOLUTIONARY WAR.] ARNOLD’S TREASON. The Pennsylvania Packet or, the General Advertiser, Philadelphia, 20 March 1781. 4 page, broadsheet (16 x 10in.). Printed in 3-columns. Arnold’s news printed near bottom right column of page one.
THE SHOCKING NEWS OF ARNOLD’S TREASON THROUGH BRITISH EYES appears on the first-page of the Pennsylvania Packet (reprinting the account from a London paper): “In consequence of the increasing jealousies and divisions among the leaders of the American army, the American general Arnold, grown tired of the service, contrived to give secret information thereof to Sir henry Clinton; adding that he , that he not only had it in his power, but would actually bring over to the British standard, the major part of the rebel army, viz., 7000 men…Sir Henry Clinton…sent Major Andre, one of his aid du camps, over to him in disguise, to forward the promising design; unfortunately, however, the affair got wind the very night, preceding the intended execution of the plan, in consequence of which Major Andre was apprehended, and immediately hung up at American headquarters, while Arnold, with the utmost difficulty, escaped on horseback, by getting within the lines of the royal army.”
THE SHOCKING NEWS OF ARNOLD’S TREASON THROUGH BRITISH EYES appears on the first-page of the Pennsylvania Packet (reprinting the account from a London paper): “In consequence of the increasing jealousies and divisions among the leaders of the American army, the American general Arnold, grown tired of the service, contrived to give secret information thereof to Sir henry Clinton; adding that he , that he not only had it in his power, but would actually bring over to the British standard, the major part of the rebel army, viz., 7000 men…Sir Henry Clinton…sent Major Andre, one of his aid du camps, over to him in disguise, to forward the promising design; unfortunately, however, the affair got wind the very night, preceding the intended execution of the plan, in consequence of which Major Andre was apprehended, and immediately hung up at American headquarters, while Arnold, with the utmost difficulty, escaped on horseback, by getting within the lines of the royal army.”