Other Revolutionary War heroes who became figures of American folklore include: Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Franklin, Nathan Hale, John Hancock, Andrew Jackson, and John Paul Jones and Francis Marion.

Engraving of Benedict Arnold

On the afternoon of May 9, Benedict Arnold quite unexpectedly arrived on the scene.

While largely accurate, it notably omits Benedict Arnold from the capture of Ticonderoga, and Seth Warner as the leader of the Green Mountain Boys.

* 1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.

Author Joseph Raymond calls Josephus " the Jewish Benedict Arnold " for betraying his own troops at Jotapata.

While it was a tactical defeat for the Americans and the small fleet led by Benedict Arnold was almost entirely destroyed, the Americans gained a strategic victory.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.

In American English, the term is less well known than the equivalent phrase Benedict Arnold.

* Benedict Arnold ( United States )

* Benedict Arnold: A Drama of the American Revolution in Five Acts ( 2005 ).

This is an effort to humanize and show the multiple dimensions of Benedict Arnold, and to contrast the democratic values embodied in the spirit of the Revolution with the socially bankrupt classism embodied in the British subjects who won Arnold to their side.

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.

* 1780 – Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.

Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City.

General Benedict Arnold learned of the transfer and captured the foundry.

His treachery is considered so notorious that his name has long been synonymous with traitor, a fate he shares with Benedict Arnold, Marcus Junius Brutus ( who too is depicted in Dante's Inferno, suffering the same fate as Judas along with Cassius Longinus ), and Vidkun Quisling.

* June 14 – Benedict Arnold, American Revolution hero and traitor ( b. 1741 )

* January 5 – American Revolution: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.

Benedict Arnold

* June 1 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.

* September 21 – Benedict Arnold gives detailed plans of West Point to Major John André.

* September 25 – Benedict Arnold flees to British-held New York.

* May 30 – Benedict Arnold signs US oath of allegiance at Valley Forge

All Christian monasticism stems, either directly or indirectly, from the Egyptian example: Saint Basil the Great Archbishop of Caesaria of Cappadocia, founder and organizer of the monastic movement in Asia Minor, visited Egypt around AD 357 and his rule is followed by the Eastern Orthodox Churches ; Saint Jerome who translated the Bible into Latin, came to Egypt, while en route to Jerusalem, around AD 400 and left details of his experiences in his letters ; Benedict founded the Benedictine Order in the 6th century on the model of Saint Pachomius, but in a stricter form.

John Paul II was followed by the German-born Benedict XVI, leading some to believe that, although Rome is in Italy, Italian domination of the papacy is over.

During the war, the Pope followed a policy of public neutrality mirroring that of Pope Benedict XV during World War I.

Famine followed the devastating Lombards, and from the few words the Liber Pontificalis has about Benedict, we gather that he died in the midst of his efforts to cope with these difficulties.

Sergius IV died on 12 May 1012 and was followed in the papacy by Pope Benedict VIII.

We do not know what rule this community followed, although it seems most likely it was the Rule of St. Benedict.

* Buckfast still followed the Rule of St. Benedict, as the Cistercians also live by that Rule.

Wilfrid would also have learned of the Rule of Saint Benedict in Gaul, as Columbanus ' monasteries followed that monastic rule.

The Cistercian monks ( or White Monks ) who lived at Tintern followed the Rule of St. Benedict.

In 901, after the Carolingian Emperors had disappeared, Benedict followed the example of Pope Leo III and crowned Louis of Provence as Holy Roman Emperor.

In 1846 neurologist Benedict Stilling first referred to what is now known as the MLF as the acusticus, followed by Theodor Meynert in 1872 calling it posterior.

The style may be used alone or followed by title and name ; when speaking about a current Pope either " His Holiness visited the shrine ..." or " His Holiness Pope Benedict visited the shrine ...".

This followed Cardinal Murphy-O ' Connor announcement on 9 July 2007 that, in accordance with the age limit of 75 years prescribed for bishops in the Code of Canon Law, he submitted his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI.

After the sede vacante period that followed the death of Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI immediately reappointed him to the same position and on 11 March 2006 also named him President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

" He said that he accompanied Benedict to morning audiences, followed by lunch together, a " short walk ," and a rest, after which he " to the Pope documents which require his signature, or his study and approval.

The community which Sylvester founded followed the Rule of St. Benedict, but as regards poverty in external matters, was far stricter than the general Benedictines of the time.

By a decree of 21 January 2009 ( Protocol Number 126 / 2009 ), which was issued in response to a renewed request that Bishop Fellay made on behalf of all four bishops whom Lefebvre had consecrated on 30 June 1988, the Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, by the power expressly granted to him by Pope Benedict XVI, remitted the automatic excommunication that they had thereby incurred, and expressed the wish that this would be followed speedily by full communion of the whole of the Society of Saint Pius X with the Church, thus bearing witness, by the proof of visible unity, to true loyalty and true recognition of the Pope's Magisterium and authority.

Germany, Italy, England, and the rest of Northern and Eastern Europe remained loyal to Urban, while France, Spain, Scotland, and Rome followed Clement VII ( 1378 – 1394 ) and his successor, Benedict XIII ( 1394 – 1417 ) who would reside in Avignon.

In addition, the statue has also merited several Papal sanctions through Pope Leo XIII who instituted the Sodality to the Infant Prague of Jesus in 1896, followed by Pope Saint Pius X who organized the Confraternity of the Infant Jesus of Prague in 1913, and most recently, Pope Benedict XVI, who donated a golden crown to the statue during his Apostolic visit to the Czech Republic in September 2009.

Members of the movement followed the rules and wore the garb of the Order of St. Benedict.