Washington replied still more hotly.

Lee demanded a court-martial and was placed under arrest on three charges: "First, disobedience of orders in not attacking the enemy agreeably to repeated instructions; secondly, misbehavior before the enemy, in making an unnecessary, disorderly and shameful retreat; thirdly, disrespect to the Commander-in-Chief in two letters written after the action."[2] By the ruling of the court all the charges against General Lee were sustained with the exception that the word "shameful" was omitted.

Lee left the army, retired to Philadelphia, and died before the end of the Revolution.

General Mifflin, another conspicuous member of the cabal, resigned at the end of the year, December, 1777.

So the traducers of Washington were punished by the reactions of their own crimes.
[Footnote 1: Sparks, 275, note 1.] [Footnote 2: Sparks, 278.