Note 1378 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

The histories have usually stated that Dieskau was mortally wounded, and Bancroft (United States, iv. 207), in his original edition speaking of him as “incurably wounded,” has changed it in his final revision (vol. ii. 435) to “mortally wounded,”—hardly true in the usual acceptation of the word, since Dieskau lived for a dozen years, though his wounds were indeed the ultimate cause of his death.