Great numbers of Canadians... are determined to join us whenever we appear in the Country with any force to support them. |
If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain you at dawn. |
Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them. |
We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt Water. |