Let me die in this old uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive me for ever having put on another.


Unverifiable, but reportedly said by Arnold on his deathbed in 1801, requesting to wear the uniform of the Colonial Army from before his defection to the British, as quoted in The Picturesque Hudson (1915) by Clifton Johnson


Let me die in this old uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive me for ever having put on another.

Let me die in this old uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive me for ever having put on another.

Let me die in this old uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive me for ever having put on another.

Let me die in this old uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive me for ever having put on another.