[Pharmboy]

Agreed...and worse!

But Gates illustrates another way in which General Washington was so outstanding, i.e., he never, to my knowledge, went after Gates after all the back-stabbing Gates had accomplished against The General.

Lesser men would have finished Gates off after his first insubordination...

[Kartographer]

A lesser man would have called Gates in from the field to their office and fired him.

Sound familiar?

Damn the times we live in that such evil and hapless men try to fill the shoes of giants that have come before.

[george76]

Thanks.

and Granny Gates ( using intrigue ) also displaced General Schuyler.

General Gates, piqued by the omission of the Continental Congress to appoint him one of the major-generals in the army , but only adjutant-general, with rank of brigadier-general...

Late in 1776 Gates repaired to the Congress at Baltimore and renewed his intrigues so successfully that, on account of false charges against Schuyler, he was appointed his successor in the command of the Northern Department in the spring of 1777. The report of a committee of inquiry caused Schuyler’s reinstatement a few weeks afterwards. Gates was angry, and wrote impertinent letters to his superiors. He refused to serve under Schuyler

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/revolutionary-war/general/philip-schuyler.htm

Then, Thomas Conway ( an Irishman who was educated in France ) started the Conway Cabal with Granny Gates and others

http://www.ushistory.org/march/other/cabal.htm