Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society or even earn the label Crime of the Century. But the stories that made headlines in decades past aren't necessarily remembered today.

I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author,

and in each episode of this show,

I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today

but was huge when it happened. This is crimes of the centuries. Oh, the.

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And Early on September 19th, 1777, Benedict Arnold heard cannon fire in the near distance and rushed to round up his men to confront the British Army bearing down on them.

Accompanied by Colonel Daniel Morgan in his rough band of rifle carrying mountain men,

Arnold soon instructed Morgan's best snipers to aim at the men in the epaulets.

That's right, he ordered them to kill the generals who were on horseback directing the enterprise.

A lot of armies would have thought that wrong.

Medieval code or something.

This was not war. It was assassination. At the very least, it was

ungentlemanly. I imagine he said, screw it. For the best part of my life nobody thought of me as a gentleman the cause

I'm fighting for is not about how the privilege behave it's about how to be free of

that this was not a dress rehearsal for amateurs.

The fight for American independence had already claimed thousands of lives

but wasn't about backing down now and wasn't done with forcing one of the world's greatest

powers to step aside.

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