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Why did Benedict Arnold's name come to mean the same as traitor in the U.S.?

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He did not recieve enough credit for his victory at Saratoga.
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because he made the guerilla warfare and he got no credit except for Horatio Gates. He tried to send all the coordinates of the West Point to a British leader and got caught
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