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3372. GENERALS, Incompetent.—

On
the land, indeed, we have been most unfortunate;
so wretched a succession of generals
never before destroyed the fairest expectations
of a nation, counting on the bravery
of its citizens, which has proved itself on all
these trials.—
To Dr. Benjamin Rush. Washington ed. vi, 106.
(M. March. 1813)