Arnold’s Assault

While Morgan’s Light Corps, the 5th and 6th Massachusetts Continentals, and other American troops attacked the Breymann Redoubt from the front, Benedict Arnold, though without a command of his own, joined a handful of Americans in a daring assault from the rear. Near this spot Arnold was shot in the leg. The nameless “Boot Monument” symbolizes both his bravery and his subsequent treason.

Saratoga, New York · United States