We should have marched over the French army at Ticonderoga.

I can't understand to this day how we lost that battle." "It seems that in very truth we lacked something there." Robert was sitting not ten feet from them and their tone being so very critical, he could not restrain a word or two.
"Your pardon, if I interrupt," he said, "but hearing you speak in a somewhat slighting manner of Ticonderoga I'm bound to advise you that you're wrong, since I was there.

The English and Scotch troops, with our own Americans, showed the very greatest valor on that sad occasion.
'Twas no fault of theirs.

Our defeat was due to the lack of artillery, the very skillful arrangements of the French commander, the Marquis de Montcalm, and the extreme courage of the French army." The two, who seemed to be merchants or shipping men, regarded him with interest but with no appearance of resentment because of his interference in their conversation.

Apparently the criticism that they permitted so freely to themselves they were willing also to allow to others.
"But you are English," said the first who had spoken, "and 'tis most natural for you to defend the generals who are sent out from the home country." "I am not English.