Historedia
Person

General Horatio Gates

Events
1
Episodes
4
Years
1777

Every event in Historedia whose sources name General Horatio Gates, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery

    1777

    Role: American general whose army the British sought to divert

    1. October 3–6, 1777 · Hudson River approach and Stony Point landingBritish Advance and Feints

      Sir Henry Clinton sailed up the Hudson on October 3 with 3,000 men, using feints to fool Putnam into withdrawing troops eastward before landing 2,100 men at Stony Point.

    2. October 6, 1777 · Fort Clinton and Fort MontgomeryAssault and Capture of the Forts

      After hours of hiking through hilly terrain, Clinton divided his troops for simultaneous assaults; despite a contested approach to Fort Montgomery, both forts fell after a relatively short battle.

    3. October 6, 1777 · Riverbank below the fortsAmerican Escape

      A number of the garrison, including General Clinton, escaped by scrambling down the embankment to the river, where gunboats ferried them to safety across the Hudson.

    4. October 26, 1777 · Forts Clinton and MontgomeryDestruction and Evacuation of the Forts

      With the New York garrison thinned by the Hudson operation, Clinton recalled Vaughan and the troops holding the forts; the forts were destroyed and evacuated on October 26.

Sources

  1. Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-12