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Major General Horatio Gates, in charge of the entire shipbuilding effort, eventually asked Arnold to take more responsibility in the effort, because " I am intirely uninform'd as to Marine Affairs.
Arnold took up the task with relish, and Gates rewarded him with command of the fleet, writing that " has a perfect knowledge in maritime affairs, and is, besides, a most gallant and deserving officer.
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While Gates and his supporters took credit for the victory, military actions had actually been directed by a cohort of field commanders led by Benedict Arnold, Enoch Poor, Benjamin Lincoln, and Daniel Morgan.
Because of his continuing reluctance to attack the British army directly, Gates was known derisively by Arnold as " Granny Gates ".
Gates put General Arnold, with whom he had previously had a good relationship, in command of the army's left, the western defenses on Bemis Heights.
The relationship between the two soured when Arnold chose to staff his command with friends of Schuyler, whom Gates hated.
Combined with the prickly natures of both Gates and Arnold, this eventually brought internal power squabbles to a boil.
Arnold, also recognizing that a British attack on the left was likely, asked Gates for permission to move his forces out to Freeman's Farm to anticipate that maneuver.
Gates denied a general movement since he wanted to wait behind his defenses for the expected frontal attack ; he did permit Arnold to send Daniel Morgan's riflemen and some light infantry out for a reconnaissance in force.
After the battle the feud between Gates and Arnold erupted.
Not only did Gates not mention Arnold at all in the official account of the battle he sent to Congress, but he also transferred Morgan's company, which had been technically independent but operated under Arnold's command in the battle ) to his own command.
Following the argument Arnold drafted a letter to Gates outlining his grievances and requesting a transfer to Washington's command.
Gates gave Arnold a pass to leave, and continued to inflict petty indignities on Arnold.
A commonly referenced reason why Arnold chose to remain is that a petition signed by all of the line officers except Gates and Lincoln convinced him to stay.
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The British offensive was eventually stopped by Continental Army then under the command of Gates and Benedict Arnold in the Battle of Saratoga.
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In addition to claiming credit for the victory at Saratoga ( which some historians feel was due more to the actions of Benedict Arnold ), Gates was politically well connected to Congress.
Cisneros is currently a board member for the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, and after-School All-Stars, founded by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in addition to being a member of the Advisory Boards of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation, among others.

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If there had been, he would have found a loophole, because Arnold is one golfer who knows the code as thoroughly as the man who wrote the book.
Until a few weeks ago, however, Arnold Palmer was some god-like creature who had nothing in common with the duffers.
Berg had little formal music education before he became a student of Arnold Schoenberg in October 1904.
On May 14, following the arrival of 100 men recruited by Arnold's captains, and the arrival of a schooner and some bateaux that had been taken at Skenesboro, Arnold and 50 of his men sailed north to raid Fort St. John, on the Richelieu River downstream from the lake, where a small British warship was reported by the prisoners to be anchored.
Arnold generously opened his stores to Allen's hungry men, and tried to dissuade Allen from his objective, noting that it was likely the alarm had been raised and troops were on their way to St. John.
Arnold Schoenberg rejected traditional tonal harmony, the hierarchical system of organizing works of music that had guided music making for at least a century and a half.
Hardly had he left the city to be consecrated in the monastery of Farfa ( about 40 km north of Rome ), when the citizens, under the influence of Arnold of Brescia, the great opponent of the Pope's temporal power, established the old Roman constitution, the Commune of Rome and elected Giordano Pierleoni to be Patrician.
One of the most infamous examples of this happened in 1983 when the Iron Sheik had Bob Backlund in a camel clutch, and Backlund's manager, Arnold Skaaland, threw in the towel to save Backlund's career.
Alan Arnold Griffith had published a paper on turbine design in 1926.
He had a number of criminal aliases known by the British police, amongst them Edward Edwards, Arnold Thompson and Edward Simpson.
In 1969, writer Roy Thomas and illustrator Neal Adams rejuvenated the comic book and gave regular roles to two recently introduced characters: Havok / Alex Summers ( who had been introduced by Roy Thomas before Adams began work on the comic ) and Lorna Dane, later called Polaris ( created by Arnold Drake and Jim Steranko ).
In one pointed talk show appearance, Arnold remarked that he had found the film “ pretentious and false.
As against this, Arnold J. Toynbee discusses the issue of two Persian names Kambujiya ( Cambyses ) as well as Kurush ( Cyrus ) elaborately and regards them both as derived from the two Eurasian nomads, the Kambojas and the Kurus mentioned in the Sanskrit texts and who, according him, had entered India and Iran in the Volkerwanderung of 8th and 7th century BCE.
After a delegation from Massachusetts ( which had issued Arnold's commission ) arrived to clarify the matter, Arnold resigned his commission and departed, leaving the fort in Hinman's hands.
It is most commonly believed to be derived from Wessex Fives, a game played by Thomas Arnold, Headmaster of Rugby, who had played Wessex Fives when a boy at Lord Weymouth's Grammer, now Warminster School.
In 1987, the Arnold Schoenberg Institute in Los Angeles commissioned the settings of the remaining twenty-nine poems that Schoenberg had neglected, using his original scoring ( Sprechstimme optional ), by sixteen American composers: Milton Babbitt, Leslie Bassett, Susan Morton Blaustein, Paul Cooper, Miriam Gideon, John Harbison, Donald Harris, Richard Hoffmann, Karl Kohn, William Kraft, Ursula Mamlok, Steve Mosco, Marc Neikrug, Mel Powell, Roger Reynolds, and Leonard Rosenman.
His maternal grandfather, James Stanihurst, had been speaker of the Irish parliament, and his father Arnold Ussher was a clerk in chancery who married Margaret Stanihurst.
Charles had Duke Adolf captured and imprisoned in 1471 and reinstated Arnold on the throne of the Duchy of Guelders.
Castellaneta has also had roles in several other television programs, including the live-action sitcom Sibs, The Adventures of Dynamo Duck, and the animated series Darkwing Duck, Back to the Future: The Animated Series, Earthworm Jim, Aladdin and Hey Arnold !.
Historians Arnold W. Gomme and Raphael Sealey believe, and Thucydides reports, that Alcibiades was offended that the Spartans had negotiated that treaty through Nicias and Laches, overlooking him on account of his youth.
After hearing her modest credentials, Stanleigh " Auk " Arnold wanted only to get this self-styled journalist out of his San Francisco Chronicle office, so he gave her some letters in need of answers ; Phillips had her replies back to the Chronicle the same day.
Five years earlier, Welbach had caused a traffic accident in which he hit the car of local mobster Arnold Margolese ( Gene Hackman ), who was jailed for five years after the police searched his car following the crash, finding someone tied up in his trunk.
While in the KGB's Lubyanka Prison, Solzhenitsyn had befriended Arnold Susi, a lawyer and former Estonian Minister of Education.
Arnold Schwarzenegger had a 2012 U1300 diesel Unimog registered in August 2012 for driving in California.
He learned golf from his father, Milford ( Deacon ) Palmer who had suffered from Polio at a young age, and was head professional and greenskeeper at Latrobe Country Club, allowing young Arnold to accompany his father as he maintained the course.

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