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American Inadequacy

The Duke of Wellington wrote on April 15, 1828:

I have never been in that country [Canada], but I must add that I have been astonished that the officers of the army and navy employed in that country were able to defend those provinces last war; and I can attribute their having been able to defend them as they did only to the inexperience of the officers of the United States in the operations of war…