Homegrown Terror: Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London

by Eric D. Lehman

Book Overview

A new look at the quintessential traitor

On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict Arnold and a force of 1,700 British soldiers and loyalists took Fort Griswold and burnt New London to the ground. The brutality of the invasion galvanized the new nation, and "Remember New London " would become a rallying cry for troops under General Lafayette. In Homegrown Terror, Eric D. Lehman chronicles the events leading up to the attack...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819573299
• ISBN13: 9780819573292
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up