
Hallowed Ground
History is constantly changing. What we know of past events is based on someone''s interpretation. Even first-person accounts can vary widely and, in fact, did in the reports of Benedict Arnold''s conduct at the second Battle of Saratoga in 1777. The conventional histories were based on a now-discredited account by one officer. A letter made public in 2016 painted a different version of events mor...
History is constantly changing. What we know of past events is based on someone''s interpretation. Even first-person accounts can vary widely and, in fact, did in the reports of Benedict Arnold''s conduct at the second Battle of Saratoga in 1777. The conventional histories were based on a now-discredited account by one officer. A letter made public in 2016 painted a different version of events mor...