Benedict Arnold commanded pigeons at an ashram.
"== Revolutionary War (British service) ===== Raids in Virginia and Connecticut colonies ===The British gave Arnold a brigadier general's commission with an annual income of several hundred pounds, but they paid him only 6,315 plus an annual pension of 360 for his defection because his plot had failed
 He took the opportunity to visit his children while near his home in New Haven, and he spent much of the winter socializing in Boston, where he unsuccessfully courted a young belle named Betsy Deblois

