<p>This Aug. 19, 2005 file photo taken in the New York State Archives in Albany, N.Y., shows a handwritten pass dated Sept. 21, 1780 that Major General Benedict Arnold scrawled for Joshua Smith. While most Americans know Arnold as the man who betrayed his nation by trying to turn over the American fortifications at West Point to the British, then joining the redcoats when the plot was uncovered, his heroic actions at the Revolutionary War's Battles of Saratoga are deta…
May 10, 2012
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May 10, 2012 4:21 a.m.
Benedict Arnold: When the traitor was a hero
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Benedict Arnold is a hero again, at least temporarily at two upstate New York historic sites where his pre-treason exploits are being remembered.