It was vain, he said, to imagine that bodily prowess, animal courage, or patriotic enthusiasm would, in the day of battle, supply the place of discipline.

The infantry were ill armed and ill trained.

They were suffered to pillage wherever they went.

They had contracted all the habits of banditti.
There was among them scarcely one officer capable of showing them their duty.

Their colonels were generally men of good family, but men who had never seen service.