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3386. GENERALS, Unqualified.—

Another general, it seems, has given proof
of his military qualifications by the loss of
another thousand men; for there cannot be a
surprise but through the fault of the commanders,
and especially by an enemy who has
given us heretofore so many of these lessons.—
To President Madison. Ford ed., ix, 379.
(M. Feb. 1813)