He advised the British that if they would do two things, offer generous terms to soldiers serving in the American army, and concentrate their effort, they could win the war.

With a cynical knowledge of the weaker side of human nature, he declared that it was too expensive a business to bring men from England to serve in America.

They could be secured more cheaply in America; it would be necessary only to pay them better than Washington could pay his army.

As matters stood the Continental troops were to have half pay for seven years after the close of the war and grants of land ranging from one hundred acres for a private to eleven hundred acres for a general.

Make better offers than this, urged Arnold; "Money will go farther than arms in America." If the British would concentrate on the Hudson where the defenses were weak they could drive a wedge between North and South.