CONWAY CABAL

1777, intrigue in the American Revolution to remove George Washington as commander in chief of the Continental Army. Washington had been defeated at Brandywine and Germantown, and Horatio Gates was flushed with success by his victory in the Saratoga campaign. Some Congressmen and army officers favored Gates as commander in chief. Gen. Thomas Conway, personally irritated with Washington, wrote a letter to Gates severely criticizing Washington. James Wilkinson of Gates's staff quoted to William Alexander (Lord Stirling) a phrase purportedly from this letter, and Alexander repeated it to Washington, who sent the quotation to Gates without comment. Gates wrote an elaborate defensive reply and sent it to Washington through Congress. Public opinion supported Washington, and the plot—if such it was—came to nothing. As it turned out, the much-quoted phrase was not in Conway's letter at all, and his name has been unfairly used to designate the cloudy scheme.

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books on: Conway Cabal  - 653 results

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The Conway Letters: The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and Their Friends, 1642-1684
Book by Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Sarah E. Hutton, Anne Conway, Henry More; University of Oxford, 1992
Subjects: Cambridge Platonists--Correspondence, Conway, Anne--1631-1679--Correspondence, Great Britain--Intellectual Life--17th Century, More, Henry--1614-1687--Correspondence, Philosophers--Great Britain--Correspondence, Theologians--Great Britain--Correspondence
THE CONWAY LETTERS THE CONWAY LETTERS The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and their Friends 1642-1684 Edited by MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON Revised Edition with an Introduction and New Material Edited by SARAH...
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Washington and the Revolution, a Reappraisal: Gates, Conway, and the Continental Congress
Book by Bernhard Knollenberg; Macmillan, 1940
Subjects: United States--History--Revolution, Washington, George--1732-1799
...conclusive is illustrated by Hughes treatment of the Conway Cabal which Washington declared was formed against him in...Collide 50 VII. The Conway Cabal 65 VIII. Conway...
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The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army That Won the Revolution
Book by John Buchanan; Wiley, 2004
Subjects: Generals--United States--Biography, Howe, Richard Howe--Earl--1726-1799, Howe, William Howe--Viscount--1729-1814, United States--Continental Army--History, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British Forces, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Manpower, Washington, George--1732-1799--Military Leadership
...owe grateful thanks to Connie McPhee and Steve Bentkowski of the Print Study Room, and to the cheerful generosity of Claire Conway of American Paintings and Sculpture. At the Frick Art Reference Library Mariko Iida kindly and patiently revealed the riches...
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Horatio Gates: Defender of American Liberties
Book by Samuel White Patterson; Columbia University Press, 1941
Subjects: Gates, Horatio--1728-1806, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
...has disposed of the myth of the "Conway Cabal"--let us hope permanently--and...conspired with that everloath- some Conway Cabal to oust Washington and snatch...XI. CONWAYS LETTER TO GATES 217...
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Christopher Gadsden and Henry Laurens: The Parallel Lives of Two American Patriots
Book by Daniel J. McDonough; Susquehanna University Press, 2000
Subjects: Gadsden, Christopher--1724-1805, Laurens, Henry--1724-1792, South Carolina--Politics And Government--1775-1783, Statesmen--United States--Biography, United States--Continental Congress--Biography, United States--Politics And Government--1775-1783
...with Laurens serving as president during the bleak period of the Congressional retreat to York, Valley Forge, and the Conway Cabal. Both, too, served as important symbols of British vengeance after capture: Lau- rens spent over a year in the Tower...
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journal articles on: Conway Cabal  - 3 results

 
 
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Revisionist Patricide: Thomas Paine's 'Letter to George Washington.'
Journal article by Steven Blakemore; CLIO, Vol. 24, 1995
Subjects: Letter to George Washington--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Paine, Thomas--Records and correspondence, United States history--Revolution, 1775-1783, Washington, George--Records and correspondence
...Crisis to prevent the so-called Conway Cabal - the conspiracy of Washingtons...using the same complaint of the Conway Cabal in 1778 to discredit Washingtons...Gates (718-19) - the general the Conway Cabal had pushed for Washingtons position...
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The Papers of George Washington. Revolutionary War Series
Journal article by Charles Royster; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 69, 2003
Subjects: The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series (Book)
...systematic training of American soldiers, the somewhat anticlimactic close of the high-level recriminations long known as the Conway cabal, and the battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, in June 1778, as the British army withdrew from Philadelphia to New York City...
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Eric Ambler's Revisionist Thrillers: Epitaph for a Spy, A Coffin for Dimitrios, and the Intercom Conspiracy
Journal article by Robert Lance Snyder; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 45, 2009
Subjects: A Coffin for Dimitrios (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Ambler, Eric--Criticism and interpretation, Ambler, Eric--Works, Epitaph for a Spy (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Suspense fiction--Criticism and interpretation, The Intercom Conspiracy (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...br/ Immediately after this reflection Vadassy imagines an international cabal of anonymous bureaucrats who serve as a "central clearing-house" for the raw data supplied by spies (60), intimating that his...


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Books for Christmas: Our Annual List of Holiday Gift Suggestions from Distinguished Readers and Writers
Magazine article by Bob Barr, Harold Bloom, Patrick J. Buchanan, George W. Bush; The American Spectator, Vol. 31, December 1998
Subjects: Books, Gifts
...When Memory Speaks: Reflect/ons on Autobiography, by Jill Ker Conway. For friends who think you are a sexist pig. Bob Kerrey is...Prize, he was toppled overnight at the climax of his career by a cabal of left-wing critics, who found him to be an intellectual and...


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newspaper articles on: Conway Cabal  - 3 results

 
 
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Ruffles and Fraudulence
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 18, 2009
...marked every upward step Wilkinson took. He was one of the sources through which Washington learned of the so-called Conway Cabal to replace him as commander with Gates. By 1781, even though he had reached the rank of brigadier general by age 25...
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York Is Short Excursion but Centuries Away
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 6, 2002
...tiny beds and unique top-hinged swing walls that separate two upstairs rooms. Even more intriguing is the story of the Conway Cabal, named for a supporter of Gen. Horatio Gates, who schemed to have him displace Gen. Washington. A toast by the influential...
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Will Region Turn Full Circle?
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), April 1, 2006
Subjects: County councils
...and Wear, not as a directly elected body, but run by a small cabal of officers and members meeting in private, would, I think...great man speaks, everybody gets into line." And Tory MP Derek Conway, another veteran of Tyne and Wear, says the "no" vote on a regional...


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encyclopedia articles on: Conway Cabal  - 7 results

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Conway Cabal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CONWAY CABAL 1777, intrigue in the American Revolution...Gates as commander in chief. Gen. Thomas Conway , personally irritated with Washington...turned out, the much-quoted phrase was not in Conways letter at all, and his name has been unfairly...
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Conway, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...appointed him major general (Dec., 1777) and made him inspector general of the army. His part in the intrigue known as the Conway Cabal was small, but he lost his command, resigned (1778), and returned to France. ____________________ Copyright 2009...
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Mifflin, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...charges were never substantiated. Dissatisfied with George Washingtons conduct of the war, he became involved in the Conway Cabal and tried to undermine Washington, but later he renewed his friendship with the commander in chief. Mifflin again served...
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Alexander, William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...prisoner exchange, he saw action at Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. In 1778 he helped to expose the Conway Cabal . See A. C. Valentine, Lord Stirling (1969). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used...
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Wilkinson, James
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...making him secretary to the board of war (1778), a position he was forced to leave because of his implication in the Conway Cabal . He was (1779 81) clothier general of the army but resigned when charged with irregularities in his accounts. Wilkinson...
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