... knowledge in the art of war, were both of them, on their arrival in France, broken as commanders of a battalion—a grade which was abolished in the French service, in THE CAMPAIGN of 1760 in CANADA ... difficulty I could draw one leg after the other. Nevertheless the fear of falling into the hands of the Indians, the idea of the horrible cruelties which they practice on their prisoners, which shock ... much share in the events of war as the genius and talents of the greatest generals. The Athenians were not in the wrong to paint Timotheus asleep, whilst Fortune, in another part of the picture,...