[Count de]. Irish soldier of fortune, born in Ireland on the 27th of February 1735. He distinguished himself in the French army, and in 1777 came to the United States and offered his services to Congress. He was at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown as a brigadier-general. He was made major-general, December 14, 1777, but in March of the following year resigned. Subsequently he returned to France and was appointed governor of Pondicherry and the French settlements in Hindustan. In 1792 he took charge of the royalist army in the south of France. Count Conway is chiefly known in American history as the leader of “Conway’s cabal,” a conspiracy to deprive Washington of the command of the army. He died about 1800.
