The Conway Cabal

There was a nascent movement to have him replaced as commander in chief. The most prominent dissenter to this idea was the recently returned from british custody, charles lee. But washington would not back down and he was supported by both stubin and lafayette. Henry clinton set out with somewhere between ten and 12 thousand men and about 15 hundred carts on june eighteenth, 17 78. As it plodded through new jersey, washington gathered his 13 thousand men and led them out of valley forge in pursuit.