2006-09-24 08:09:19 · 5 answers · asked by Miikii 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Benedict Arnold (treason during American revolution), Charles Lee (captured and gave info to the Bristish), Joseph Smith (started the Mormon religion), John Wilkes Booth (shot Lincoln and opposed Emancipation).
That's all I can think off the top of my head. Many more renegades/deserters I can think of during the Vietnam Era (i.e. John Kerry, Jane Fonda, Bill Clinton).
2006-09-24 12:24:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aaron Burr and Benedict Arnold.
Around the time of his Vice-Presidency, Burr conspired to make the Louisiana territory his own personal empire and collaborated with Spanish spies.
Benedict Arnold, one of the most successful American generals of the War of the American Revolution, was often ignored on recognition and compensation for his courageous actions. He eventually tried to sell West Point to the British but the plot was discovered and it failed. He then spent the remander of the war fighting the British; Raiding in Virginia and putting an entire American army to the sword at Fort Griswold, Connecticut. To this day he is the quintessential traitor to America.
2006-09-24 19:01:06 · answer #2 · answered by travis_a_duncan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Frances Bacon
Bacon's Rebellion
2006-09-25 01:30:45 · answer #3 · answered by **twin** 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1583, "apostate," probably (with change of suffix) from Sp. renegado, originally
"Christian turned Muslim," from M.L. renegatus, prop. pp. of renegare "deny"
(see renege). General sense of "turncoat" is from 1665. The form renegate, directly from M.L., is attested in Eng. from c.1375.
( The bottom link is to a book,that tells about those names.)
2006-09-24 15:33:15 · answer #4 · answered by zurioluchi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean by renegades?
2006-09-24 15:12:18 · answer #5 · answered by Malika 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋