His flight, when he did retire, was not sufficiently rapid, nor sufficiently prudent.

He was one of those men who too quickly feel themselves secure.

He was surprised by Tarleton, but two days after, his troops utterly dispersed, he, too, a fugitive like Gates, with all the fruits of his late victory taken from his grasp.

In almost every instance where the Americans suffered defeat, the misfortune was due to a want of proper caution--an unobservance of some of the simplest rules of military prudence.

In a brilliant sortie, a manful charge, a sudden onslaught, no troops could have surpassed them--nay, we find as many examples of the sternest powers of human endurance, under the severest trials of firmness, in their military history, as in that of any other people.