The French preserved an admirable discipline.

Against their army there are no records of outrage and plunder such as we have against the German allies of the British.

We must remember, however, that the French were serving in the country of their friends, with every restraint of good feeling which this involved.
Rochambeau told his men that they must not be the theft of a bit of wood, or of any vegetables, or of even a sheaf of straw.

He threatened the vice which he called "sonorous drunkenness," and even lack of cleanliness, with sharp punishment.

The result was that a month after landing he could say that not a cabbage had been stolen.