campaigning still to come. Arnold learned while recuperating that Congress had promoted him, too. “May heaven protect you that you may long be an ornament to your country,” Schuyler wrote the new brigadier general in January, “and sit down in an old age with the comfortable reflection that you have been a good citizen.” He had already done the impossible. Now he would be asked to do even more. “I have no thoughts of leaving this proud town until I first enter it in triumph,” Arnold wrote his sister on January 6. “I am in the way of duty, and I know no fear.”
