| Show american revolution tion might have ended differently if was the most brilliant leader of light infantry that the fr french h and ad lad indian W war d tied had he sur survived v ived until a fit th the u turn tuni bouquet wai wo uldis d ia ae the reason n able b a surmise against his er erstwhile st while 1 fellow officers and ices friends 9 in an the colonies colones have pitted his battalions with t he ruthless effi efficiency cumy of the p professional fess ess ional lonal soldier E douglas branch in a talk j before fore westerners in chicago cluel july 1944 it seems a heart ess eso thing to say but the bullet that struck down wolfe wale a on the pla plains of abraham and the fever that carried bouquet away at pensacola did good service to the country destined to become the united states ot of america for they were such accomplished soldiers men of such talent and ad series genius that hd they been in m command of the british forces in an the war of the revola revolution h on that struggle might have been short er and its results possibly vastly different they were both young enough an men n when they died to have been available for far service in 1775 we do not find such another I 1 indian die n fighter as this gallant swiss s in the colonial records and it I 1 is noteworthy that the same sort of t troops reap as were found entirely inadequate a de q net to the situation when led by braddock proved e t themselves heroes in deed when und under or erae the command oems of a greater and abler man cyrus townsend brady in border fights and fighters |
