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25 de abr. de 2024 · Horatio Gates was a controversial general during the Revolutionary War. While he is remembered for leading the Patriots to a key victory in the Battle of Saratoga, a critical turning point in the war, he also participated in a plot to replace General George Washington.
1 de may. de 2024 · April 12, 1782. Nathanael Greene, army general in the American Revolution who succeeded General Horatio Gates as commander in chief of the Continental Army in the South in December 1780. Greene was George Washington’s designated successor as overall commander and a strategist without peer on the American side of the Revolution.
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3 de may. de 2024 · In October 1777, American general Horatio Gates captured a British army under General John Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York—an enormous victory that stunned Europe and helped convince the French to enter the war on the American side the following spring.
9 de may. de 2024 · The de facto leader of the Board was Horatio Gates, the newly minted hero of Saratoga who, via the Cabal, was vying with Washington for leadership of the Continental Army. At the height of his influence, some would claim Gates was the dictator of the Board. [5]
Hace 2 días · In Upstate New York, the Patriots were led by General Horatio Gates. Concerned about Burgoyne's movements southward, Washington sent reinforcements north with Generals Benedict Arnold , his most aggressive field commander, and Benjamin Lincoln .
24 de abr. de 2024 · This sparked a bloody regional civil war, as the state's Patriot and Loyalist militias brutalized one another in the South Carolina backcountry. The southern Continental Army, under General Horatio Gates, had tried to retake the state but had been decisively defeated at Camden.
Hace 1 día · Introduction. George Washington’s failure to prevent the British army from seizing Philadelphia guided his decision to make Valley Forge the site of the Continental Army’s 1777–1778 winter encampment. Less than twenty miles from the captured capital, it was close enough to curtail British movement in the Pennsylvania countryside but ...
