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In the films The Crossing and Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor Gates is portrayed as being very vain and opportunistic. In the film The Patriot, after Gates' army is beaten back in a skirmish, Benjamin Martin contemptuously remarks "Gates is a fool. This battle was lost even before it started."
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