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Hope Hodge Seck

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Hope Hodge Seck is an award-winning freelance reporter and editor who has covered the U.S. military and security issues since 2009. She was managing editor of Military.com from 2018 to 2021. She’s the former vice president of Military Reporters and Editors and currently contributes to the Useful Fiction project.
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Brigadier General Benedict Arnold lost the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain in 1776—as well as several of the young navy's ships, including the gunboat Spitfire—but the skirmish bought the Continental Army much-needed time in the war.

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Benedict Arnold's Lake Champlain Gunboat Is the Last Shipwreck of Its Kind

Preserved in the lake's chilly waters for more than 200 years, the Spitfire now faces a new threat.

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