Crippled from his wounds, Arnold was placed in command of in June 1778. There he socialized with families of sympathies and lived extravagantly. To raise money, he violated several state and regulations, arousing the suspicions and, finally, the denunciations of Pennsylvania’s supreme executive council. These charges were then referred to Congress, and Arnold asked for an immediate court-martial to clear himself. Meanwhile, in April 1779, he married Margaret (Peggy) Shippen, a young woman of loyalist sympathies. Benedict Arnold's meeting with British Major John AndréAmerican Gen. Benedict Arnold (seated), commander of West Point, pointing to the boot of British Major John André to suggest it as a place to conceal plans regarding Arnold's surrender of the strategically located garrison to the British.(more)Early in May 1779, Arnold made secret overtures to British headquarters, and a year later he informed the British of a proposed American invasion of Canada. In July 1780 he revealed that he expected to obtain the command of the fort at in New York—which happened in August—and through his British contact, Major , he asked the British for £20,000 for betraying this post. When André was captured by the Americans, Arnold escaped on a British ship, leaving André to be hanged as a spy. The sacrifice of André made Arnold odious to loyalists, and his reputation was further tarnished among his former neighbors when he led British forces in a raid that burned , Connecticut, and killed dozens on September 6, 1781., Benedict Arnold (January 14, 1741 [O.S. January 3, 1740] [1][a] – June 14, 1801) was an American-born British military officer who served during the American Revolutionary War. He fought with distinction for the American Continental Army and rose to the rank of major general before defecting to the British in 1780., Benedict Arnold (1741–1801) was an American officer who served the cause of the American Revolution until 1779, when he shifted his allegiance to the British. His name became an epithet for traitor in the United States..