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Benedict Arnold was born in Norwich in 1740. In my youth I often passed the house where he first saw the light, and once ven tured timidly within. It cowered among gloomy trees away from the street as if ashamed to face the sunshine. Arnold having failed to deliver West Point to the British, they fitted out an expedition under his command to Eastern Connecticut in the fall of 1781. He burned New London, and expressed malignant regrets that he could not lay his native town in ashes. He attacked Fort Griswold on Gorton Heights and massacred a large portion of the garrison. Colonel William Ledyard, the intrepid commander, the brother of the famous traveller, was thrust through with his own sword after he had surrendered. The wounded were thrown into carts, which, by their own weight, plunged with their writhing freight, furiously down the rocky declivity toward the Thames. A shapely monu ment now crowns the Heights. On marble tablets at its base are engraved the names of the one hundred and more who were slain on that bloody day. Among them are three or four Stantons. My grandfather Brewster participated in this deadly aflray, but came out uninjured. I scarcely need add that the people of my county were taught to detest the cowardly catiff, Benedict Arnold.
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