Timeer Mehta
Professor
Literature of the American Revolution
9 March 2016
The Gentleman’s General
Horatio Gates and the American Revolution
Horatio Gates was born on July 26th, 1727 in Maldon, England. A military man from a young age, he served as a lieutenant in the British Army and then later served as a captain during the French and Indian War, where he fought in the North American campaign. Though he would return to his native England following the conclusion of the war, he sympathized with the restive colonial protests against the British government in the following years resulting from the high taxes imposed on the colonies to pay for their defense. Gates eventually moved to Virginia in 1772 not long before the break out of the American Revolutionary War, where he was appointed an officer in the Continental Army. Warren characterizes gates as “an officer of bravery, punctuality, and a nice sense of military honor, but with the fine feelings of humanity, and the delicacy of the gentleman” (2009, p. 240).
Throughout Warren’s work, Warren characterizes Gates in this way by speaking about Gates respectfully and alluding to his gentlemanly acts. This contrasts with how other sources depict Gates. Consider external sources such as the Louisiana State University Press’ biography of
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General Horatio Gates. The presentation of Gates is much dryer and neutral in tone. Gates’ acts are more frequently discussed by Warren with the implication that they may have been inspired by pragmatism or military bravery than by cowardice (Nelson 77). Following the loss of Fort Ticonderoga to assaulting British forces, the Continental Congress assigned Gates command of the young nation’s northern forces.
He became famous following the decisive Battle of Saratoga in New York, where he was able to take take the British General Burgoyne and the whole of his forces prisoner. As Burgoyne and the rest of the British forces were then escorted to their camp, Warren notes that “they were everywhere treated with such humanity, and even delicacy, that themselves acknowledged, the civil deportment of the inhabitants of the country, was without a parallel that they thought it remarkable, that not an insult was offered.” (Warren, 2009, p.
241). Following these early famed victories against British forces, the Congress awarded Gates the political position of the President of the Board of War. Here Gates would find himself embroiled in controversy. As General George Washington and the bulk of the Continental Army struggled to find victory in the field against the superior arms and armaments of the British military forces, a number of American army officers sought to force Washington’s replacement as head of the army with Gates. The plotters were known as the Conway Cabal, and when they failed to achieve the sacking of Washington as general Gates chose to resign his position at the head of the Board of War “with a dignity and firmness becoming his own character” (Warren, 2009, p. 427) to retake a position as a field commander. Following the fall of the critical port city of Charleston, South Carolina in 1780 to British forces, Gates was made commander of the southern detachment of the Continental Army. This tenure ultimately led to the Battle of Camden, where Gates led the American forces against the British troops of General Cornwallis. Here Gates failed to achieve the same results he had become famed for in New York, as the Battle of Camden turned to a humiliating defeat for the American forces. After the battle Congress passed a resolution establishing a board of inquiry into Gates’ conduct. Although he would not be charged with misconduct or court martialed, Gates was inevitably removed from command. Warren's opinion of Gates changed after Gates lost the Battle of Camden primarily with regards to his military reputation. Regardless, Warren continued to present Gates as being honorable, brave, and as being a gentleman. Although Warren continued to stress Gates’ dignity of character following these events, noting that “though he had lost the day in the unfortunate action at Camden, [he] lost no part of his courage, vigilance, of firmness,” Gates’ military reputation would not be given the same treatment and he would not find himself again at the head of the American military forces. While Warren’s depictions of Gates remain largely positive, other sources are less favorable for Gates and portray him as being cowardly and ineffective. Still, after the achievement of American independence and the victory of the colonies in the Revolutionary War, Gates would once again come to serve his country as an elected representative in the New York state legislature. He eventually died on April 10th, 1806, where he was buried in the Trinity Church graveyard in the heart of New York City. Works Cited Nelson, Paul David. General Horatio Gates: A Biography. Louisiana State University Press, 1976. Warren, Mercy. History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution. Vol. 1. Applewood Books, 2009.
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