BIBLIOGRAPHY.--Jared Sparks' _Life and Treason of Benedict Arnold_
(Boston, 1835), in his "Library of American Biography," is biassed and
unfair. The best general account is Isaac Newton Arnold's _Life of
Benedict Arnold_ (Chicago, 1880), which, while offering no apologies
or defence of his treason, lays perhaps too great emphasis on his
provocations. Charles Burr Todd's _The Real Benedict Arnold_ (New
York, 1903) is a curious attempt to make Arnold's wife wholly
responsible for his defection. Francois de Barbe-Marbois's _Complot
d'Arnold et de Sir H. Clinton contre les Etats-Unis_ (Paris, 1816)
contains much interesting material, but is inaccurate. Two good
accounts of the Canadian Expedition are Justin H. Smith's _Arnold's
March from Cambridge to Quebec_ (New York, 1903), which contains a
reprint of Arnold's journal of the expedition; and John Codman's
_Arnold's Expedition to Quebec_ (New York, 1901). Arnold's _Letters on
the Expedition to Canada_ were printed in the Maine Historical
Society's _Collections_ for 1831 (repr. 1865). See also William
Abbatt, _The Crisis of the Revolution_ (New York, 1899); _The Northern
Invasion of 1780_ (Bradford Club Series, No. 6, New York, 1866); "The
Treason of Benedict Arnold" (letters of Sir Henry Clinton to Lord
George Germaine) in _Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography_,
vol. xxii. (Philadelphia, 1898); and _Proceedings of a General Court
Martial for the Trial of Major-General Arnold_ (Philadelphia, 1780;
reprinted with introduction and notes, New York, 1865).
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