Note 1485 — Chapter VIII · (continued 3)

Indeed, military critics have questioned the general multiform plan of Pitt’s campaign as a serious error. Cf. Smollett’s England, and Viscount Bury’s Exodus, ii. 288. Pitt’s letter of Dec. 9, 1758, to the colonial governors on the coming campaign is in the New Hampshire Prov. Papers, vi. 703; and his letter of Dec. 29, 1758, to Amherst on the conduct of it is in the N. Y. Col. Docs., vii. 355. Cf. also Chatham Correspondence. Jared Ingersoll’s account of the character and appearance of Pitt in 1759 is given in E. E. Beardsley’s Life and Times of William Samuel Johnson, Boston, 2d ed., 1886, p. 21.