[HN Gopher] Benedict Arnold's Body Lies in the Wall of a British... ___________________________________________________________________ Benedict Arnold's Body Lies in the Wall of a British Kindergarten Author : bryanrasmussen Score : 21 points Date : 2022-04-26 11:16 UTC (11 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.military.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.military.com) | balefrost wrote: | I wanted to see pictures, and I found some here: | https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/benedict-arnolds-cry... | | It looks surprisingly cozy. | qiskit wrote: | Three names no parent will name their sons - Benedict, Adolf, | Judas. Poor bastard. Talk about choosing poorly. Sold his legacy | for peanuts. | [deleted] | pella wrote: | other: | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold_(congressman) | | _" Benedict Arnold (October 5, 1780 - March 3, 1849) was an | American politician from New York, and a member of the House of | Representatives."_ | | _" He was named in honor of the famous Benedict Arnold at a | time during the American Revolutionary War when he was still | seen as a hero of the United States, stemming from the capture | of Fort Ticonderoga."_ | drewcoo wrote: | Benjamin Arnold was outed September 23rd, 1780 with the | capture of his conspirator, Andres. Andres was hanged October | 2nd, also in New York. | | Maybe the news didn't spread quickly enough? It seems | suspicious, though, given how big a story it was. Maybe his | parents were Tories? | | https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/benedict- | accompl... | qiskit wrote: | That's interesting. Benedict Arnold's treason was exposed in | late september and this guy was born early october before his | parents found out about the treason. So news definitely | spread slowly back then. | | It says he had 12 children. I wonder if he named any of his | sons benedict. | pella wrote: | One of his children was also Benedict. | | _" They had twelve children, Hiram, Jane, William, Maria, | James, Charlotte, Lorenzo, Benedict, Hasley, Sarah, Marion, | and Adam"_ | smcl wrote: | FWIW he's fairly anonymous outside the USA. It was in Mike | Duncan's "Revolutions" podcast that I first encountered him | properly (not counting a reference I didn't understand in | "Scrubs" a decade or so earlier). When it comes down to it, he | was a bit more of a complex Bad Guy than your Adolfs Hitler or | your Judases Iscariot. | | What _is_ odd is the suggestion that "Benedict" is ill | favoured due to the memory of Benedict Arnold, while more | universally and unambiguously bad guys (from the perspective of | the US state) like Robert E. Lee and David Duke don't have this | JustLurking2022 wrote: | More complicated in some ways but also surprisingly similar | in that he would rather see his country burn than see someone | else get credit for it's success. | Veen wrote: | No American parent perhaps. The name doesn't have negative | connotations elsewhere. For me, it's more associated with the | previous pope and the actor than with Arnold. | er4hn wrote: | As an example, the UK tech analyst Benedict Evans: | https://www.ben-evans.com/ | throwyawayyyy wrote: | Benedict Cumberbatch :) | dole wrote: | Dirk :/ ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-26 23:00 UTC)