Ah, that defeat by Duquesne! I scarcely see yet how it happened!" "A general who made war in a country that he did not know, with an enemy that he did not understand." "Well, we'll learn from it.

We were too sure.

Pride, they say, goes before a fall, but they ought to add that those who fall can rise again.
Perhaps our generals will be more cautious next time, and won't walk into any more traps.

But I foresee now a long, a very long war.

Nearly all of Europe, if what comes across the Atlantic be true, will be involved in it, and we Americans will be thrown mostly upon our own resources.