When that very typical German, George III., narrow, serious, of a stunted culture and coarse in his very domesticity, quarrelled with all that was spirited, not only in the democracy of America but in the aristocracy of England, German troops were very fitted to be his ambassadors beyond the Atlantic.

With their well-drilled formations they followed Burgoyne in that woodland march that failed at Saratoga; and with their wooden faces beheld our downfall.

Their presence had long had its effect in various ways.

In one way, curiously enough, their very militarism helped England to be less military; and especially to be more mercantile.

It began to be felt, faintly of course and never consciously, that fighting was a thing that foreigners had to do.