Benedict Arnold’s Forgotten London Grave: How America’s Most Infamous Traitor Died in Exile
America’s most famous traitor didn’t die in disgrace at home — he died in exile in London, and his bones were nearly lost beneath a church by the Thames.
The Turtle: The Hand-Cranked Submarine That Tried to Sink the British Navy in 1776
On a dark night in New York Harbor in 1776, a single volunteer sealed himself inside a wooden sphere the size of a barrel, sank beneath the waves, and hand-cranked his way toward the flagship of the most powerful navy on Earth. His mission: to screw a keg of gunpowder into the hull of a British warship. The machine was called the Turtle, and it was the first submarine ever taken into battle.
The Boy Who Signed With an X: America’s Oldest John Doe Finally Gets His Name Back
In 1777 a fourteen-year-old orphan made his mark on an enlistment paper because he could not write his own name. Three years later he was buried anonymously at Camden. It took 246 years and three kinds of DNA to give it back to him.