...Adjutant-General Harvey, who declared at the outset of the war that ' to attempt to conquer America internally by our land force is as wild an idea as ever controverted common-sense ' ; yet, in face of that opinion, Germaine was permitted to attempt to run the campaign...

...This action finally committed England to a serious war without the means of carrying it through. " Taking America as it at present stands," wrote General...British Army. To attempt to conquer it internally with our land force is as wild an idea as ever controverted common sense."2 The best opinions urged...

...the hugeness of the task. Harvey, the Adjutant-General, wrote : " To attempt to conquer it [America] by our land force is as wild an idea as ever controverted common sense." " Unless a settled plan of operations be agreed upon for next spring," he wrote in 1775, " our army...

...Adams, Revolutionary New England, 1691-1776, pp. 67/., iftff., 164 ^., 246. America as it now stands, it is impossible to conquer it with our British Army. ... To attempt to conquer it by our land force is as wild an idea as ever controverted common sense." ' While Gage was in Boston,...

...Adams, Revolutionary New England, 1691-1776, pp. 6jf., 76^., 1(nff., 246. America as it now stands, it is impossible to conquer it with our British Army. ... To attempt to conquer it by our land force is as wild an idea as ever controverted common sense." L While Gage was in Boston,...

...it now stands, it is impossible to conquer it with our British Army. . . . To attempt to conquer it by our land force is as wild an idea as ever controverted common sense." 1 While Gage was in Boston, Harvey, growing impatient, wrote that "America is an ugly job" and that...

...reached England, we find him writing to another general, ' taking America as it at present stands, it is impossible to conquer it with our British army....as wild an idea as ever controverted common sense.' And again on the same date to Howe: 'Unless a settled plan of operation be agreed upon for next spring,...

...present stands, it is impossible to conquest it with our British Army. . . . To attempt to conquer it by our land force is as wild an idea as ever controverted common sense." General Amherst also had grave doubts and, like Barrington, would have preferred a naval strategy....

...American ports and occasional raids, seemed madness to Hervey: "Taking America as it at present stands, it is impossible to conquer it with our British Army...land force is as wild an idea as ever controverted commonsense." But George III and his advisors had listened, instead, to colonial governors, who argued...