[Footnote 27: "Those who have experienced only the severities and dangers of a campaign in Europe can scarcely form an idea of what is to be done and endured in an American war. In an American campaign every thing is terrible--the face of the country, the climate, the enemy. There is no refreshment for the healthy nor relief for the sick. A vast inhospitable desert surrounds the troops where victories are not decisive, but defeats are ruinous, and simple death is the least misfortune that can happen to a soldier. This forms a service truly critical, in which all the firmness of the body and the mind is put to the severest trial, and all the exertions of courage and address are called out. If the actions of these rude campaigns are of less dignity, the adventures in them are more interesting to the heart, and more amusing to the imagination than the details of a regular war."--(Burke, _Annual Register_, 1763.) "Yet Adam Smith ventures to assert, in the plenitude of learned ignorance and ingenious error, that 'nothing can be more contemptible than an Indian war in North America.' ... Colonel Barré, who had served in America, declared, in his celebrated speech upon American taxation, in 1765, that the Indians were as enemies 'the most subtile and the most formidable of any people upon the face of God's earth.'"--Graham's _History of the United States_, vol. iv., p. 448.] [Footnote 28: "You will see ... the condition of the troops in this country, particularly that of the infamous Free Companies of New York."--_Letter from General Braddock to Colonel Napier, Adjutant General._ Williamsburg, Feb. 24, 1754.] [Footnote 29: "The (Duke of Cumberland), who is now the soul of the regency, is much dissatisfied at the slowness of General Braddock, who does not march as if he was at all impatient to be scalped. It is said for him that he has had bad guides, that the roads are exceedingly difficult, and that it was necessary to drag as much artillery as he does. This is not the first time, as witness in Hawley, that the duke has found that brutality did not necessarily constitute a general. Braddock is a very Iroquois in disposition."--Walpole's _Letters to Sir H. Mann_, Aug. 21, 1755.] [Footnote 30: "Want of intelligence and reconnoitering parties was the sole cause of defeat."--General Kane's _Mil. Hist. of Great Britain to 1757_.]