The Boot Monument is an American Revolutionary War memorial located in Saratoga National Historical Park, New York.

While fighting at the Battle of Bemis Heights, the second of the Saratoga engagements, Arnold was shot and severely injured in his left leg.

[10] In addition, he was further embittered by his combat wounds, by not having been promoted by Congress,[11] and by eight court-martial charges of abusing his role as military commander of Philadelphia.

[12] These troubles, along with the fact that his wife, Peggy Shippen, came from a family of Loyalists, caused Arnold to start communicating with the British.

British General Sir Henry Clinton offered Arnold £20,000 (equivalent to £3,353,000 in 2023) for the capture of West Point,[13] a fortification that was important to the control of the Hudson River.

During the meeting, there was an announcement by Ellen Hardin Walworth, chairman of the Committee of Tablets, that the spot where Arnold injured his leg was marked by a stake, as a historical marker.

"[23] He commissioned George Edwin Bissell,[22][27] who had designed other statues that de Peyster had erected,[23] to sculpt a marker in white marble.

[30][31] They were only discovered when an anonymous informer (described as "a graduate of a New York State educational institution") told the battlefield official in 1931 that the toe had been stolen.

[47] The inscription on the monument reads: Erected 1887 By JOHN WATTS de PEYSTER Brev: Maj: Gen: S.N.Y.

2nd V. Pres't Saratoga Mon't Ass't'n:[c] In memory of the "most brilliant soldier" of the Continental Army who was desperately wounded on this spot the sally port of