The tactic of delay has worked well…

August 1777 CE

The tactic of delay has worked well in the field, but the result in the Continental Congress is a different matter.

General Horatio Gates had been in Philadelphia when Congress discussed its shock at the fall of Ticonderoga, and Gates had been more than willing to help assign the blame to reluctant generals.

Some in the Congress had already been impatient with General George Washington, wanting a large, direct confrontation that might eliminate occupation forces but which Washington feared would probably lose the war

John Adams, the head of the War Committee, had praised Gates and remarked that "we shall never hold a post until we shoot a general."

Over the objections of the New York delegation, Congress had sent Gates to take command of the Northern Department on August 10.

It had also ordered states from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts to call out their militias.

On August 19, Gates arrives at Albany to take charge.

He is cold and arrogant in manner, and pointedly excludes Schuyler from his first war council.

Schuyler leaves for Philadelphia shortly after, depriving Gates of his intimate knowledge of the area.

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