Benedict Arnold

Benedict "The Martyr" Arnold was a British-American soldier and officer in the Continental Army during the American War for Independence. His death during a minor engagement with the British Army at Valley Forge would convince a shell-shocked Aaron Burr of his own divine destiny. Arnold occupied a place of revered esteem in death, known officially as the Martyr Arnold by Burr's American Fundamentalist Christian Church, which would eventually become the state-sanctioned faith of the Republican Union and the later New United States of America.