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Salina B Baker @SalinaBBaker - IMO, Thomas Conway, along with Horatio Gates and Thomas Mifflin, were some of the great whiners of the Revolutionary War who never did anything that greatly changed the course of the war. Don't say that Gates's victory at Saratoga was his accomplishment. Those laurels go to Arnold, Morgan, and those guys. Mifflin was jealous of Nathanael Greene and tried to have him overthrown with Washington. Mifflin proclaimed, "The ear of the commander-in-chief was exclusively possessed by Greene."
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Terry Applegate @CharliesWhiskey
3 November 1777 (estimated date)  the history of the Conway Cabal begins.
Brigadier General Thomas Conway, serving in the main Continental Army under General George Washington sat down one evening in Pennsylvania and penned a letter. Many a general officer on many a night during  during the American Revolution did the same thing. However, Conway’s missive was addressed to Major General Horatio Gates, commanding general of the northern army and recent victor at Saratoga.
Conway was frustrated at slights he perceived he had received from Washington, including the latter’s blocking of his promotion to major general, even though over twenty fellow brigadier generals had seniority. That did not matter to the Irish-born, French army veteran, well versed in military tactics and not shy about acknowledging his expertise to all those who cared—or did not care—to be within earshot. He even showed displeasure at the promotion of another European officer, Baron de Kalb, who Conway outranked on the continent.
One line from that letter, which when heard by certain ears had severe implications in the fall and winter of 1777-1778, much to the demise of Thomas Conway. It  said in part:
“Heaven has been determined to save your Country, or a weak General and bad Councellors would have ruined it…”
Under the flickering glow of a candle in eastern Pennsylvania, Conway unwittingly tied his name to what historians have labeled the “Conway Cabal.”
Precedence and military decorum dictated that news of a battlefield victory would travel first to the commander-in-chief and then through his headquarters to the governing political body. After the pivotal victory of Saratoga, Gates sent an adjutant, Major James Wilkinson, with his official report of the engagements to the Continental Congress.
The young officer, treating the assignment more leisurely than timely, stopped off at the headquarters of another Continental general, Major General William Lord Stirling, for a night of revelry and drinking with the latter’s staff.
During that night of imbibing, Wilkinson let slip the above quotation about “weak generals” to Major William McWilliams of Stirling’s staff and referenced a letter that Conway had written to Gates.
McWilliams dutifully notified Stirling who in turn wrote to Washington out of “motives of friendship” informing the Virginian that,
“The inclosed [referring to the quote referenced above] was communicated by Colonl Wilkinson
to Majr. McWilliams, such wicked duplicity of conduct I shall always think it my duty to detect.”
Washington, in turn, informed Conway that he was aware of the contents of the letter and the phraseology used in reference to him.
The Irishman replied two days later on November 5, admitting that he wrote the letter to Gates but denying that he ever used the term “weak general” to describe Washington.
https://battlefields.org/learn/articles/conway-cabal
Brigadier Thomas Conway
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