On Saturday, hundreds are expected to gather for the Burning of Benedict Arnold Festival in New London, Connecticut.
Hundreds are expected to gather in New London Saturday for the, during which a paper mâché figure of the disgraced American Revolutionary is torched to mark the anniversary of when Arnold led a group of more than 1,600 British soldiers to burn most of the city to the ground in Sept. 1781.For close to a century, cities such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia held yearly traitor-burning events, but those died out during the Civil War.
An effigy of Arnold, who defected to the British during the American Revolution, is torched on the city’s waterfront.“This project and specifically the reaction, the sort of hunger for its return, has been huge and the interest in it has been huge,” said Victor Chiburis, the festival’s co-organizer.
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