Above all, however, the British had to bear the odium which attaches always to the invader.

We do not know what an American army would have done if, with Iroquois savages as allies, it had made war in an English county.

We know what loathing a parallel situation aroused against the British army in America.

The Indians, it should be noted, were not soldiers under British discipline but allies; the chiefs regarded themselves as equals who must be consulted and not as enlisted to take orders from a British general.
In war, as in politics, nice balancing of merit or defect in an enemy would destroy the main purpose which is to defeat him.

Each side exaggerates any weak point in the other in order to stimulate the fighting passions.