[PAR] [TLE] Benedict Arnold [SEP] Benedict Arnold (January 14, 1741 [O.S. January 3, 1740] June 14, 1801) was a general during the American Revolutionary War, who fought for the American Continental Army, and later defected to the British Army.  While a general on the American side, he obtained command of the fortifications at West Point, New York (which after 1802 would become the site of the U.S. Military Academy), overlooking the cliffs at the Hudson River (upriver from British-occupied New York City), and planned to surrender them to British forces.  This plan was exposed in September 1780.  He was commissioned into the British Army as a brigadier general. [PAR] [TLE] André (play) [SEP] André; a Tragedy in Five Acts is a play by William Dunlap, first produced at the Park Theatre in New York City on March 30, 1798, by the Old American Company, published in that same year together with a collection of historic documents relating to the case of the title character, Major John André, the British officer who was hanged as a spy on October 2, 1780, for his role in the treason of Benedict Arnold.  The play does not go into the historic details, but rather presents a fictionalized account of the American debate over whether to spare or hang him.  Only three characters in the play are historic: André himself, George Washington (referred to throughout the text, except once in a passage inserted between the first two performances, simply as "The General"), and Honora Sneyd, who had been briefly engaged to André ten years earlier under the auspices of Anna Seward, who had done much to romanticize the affair in her Monody on Major André of 1781.  (Actually, Honora Sneyd had died of consumption some months before André's death, and never went to America.)
[PAR] [TLE] Benedict Arnold [ SEP ] Benedict Arnold ( January 14 , 1741 [ O.S. January 3 , 1740 ] June 14 , 1801 ) was a general during the American Revolutionary War , who fought for the American Continental Army , and later defected to the British Army . While a general on the American side , he obtained command of the fortifications at West Point , New York ( which after 1802 would become the site of the U.S. Military Academy ) , overlooking the cliffs at the Hudson River ( upriver from British - occupied New York City ) , and planned to surrender them to British forces . This plan was exposed in September 1780 . He was commissioned into the British Army as a brigadier general . [PAR] [TLE] André ( play ) [ SEP ] André ; a Tragedy in Five Acts is a play by William Dunlap , first produced at the Park Theatre in New York City on March 30 , 1798 , by the Old American Company , published in that same year together with a collection of historic documents relating to the case of the title character , Major John André , the British officer who was hanged as a spy on October 2 , 1780 , for his role in the treason of Benedict Arnold . The play does not go into the historic details , but rather presents a fictionalized account of the American debate over whether to spare or hang him . Only three characters in the play are historic : André himself , George Washington ( referred to throughout the text , except once in a passage inserted between the first two performances , simply as " The General " ) , and Honora Sneyd , who had been briefly engaged to André ten years earlier under the auspices of Anna Seward , who had done much to romanticize the affair in her Monody on Major André of 1781 . ( Actually , Honora Sneyd had died of consumption some months before André 's death , and never went to America . )
The play Andre is a fictionalized account of whether to spare or hang Major John Andre for his role in treason of which person who was a general in the American Revolutionary War that later defected to the British Army?
The play Andre is a fictionalized account of whether to spare or hang Major John Andre for his role in treason of which person who was a general in the American Revolutionary War that later defected to the British Army ?
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold