... enemy that employed unconventional tactics could do, learning from the defeat of General Edward Braddock at Monongahela in the French and Indian War in 1755. The use of light infantry troops was something he advocated. Perhaps most importantly, he believed that a protracted war was not something Britain could support or afford. Germain favored an immediate conquest of New York. The state had ... Virginia that led to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Invariably, posterity has held Germain more responsible than any other individual for losing the war. His critics, then as now, have ...

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