Note 414 — Chapter II

When Elisha Hutchinson, in London, heard of the battle, he said: "If every small hill or rising ground about Boston is to be recovered in the same way, I see no prospect of an end to the war." (P. O. Hutchinson's Governor Hutchinson, p. 506.) Belknap (Papers, published by Mass. Hist. Soc., ii. 159) says the criticism on Howe for attacking in front was general. The royalist Jones, in his New York during the Revolutionary War (i. 52), charges the British general with obstinacy in this respect. Lee (Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department, 2d ed., p. 33) traces Howe's subsequent timidity in his conduct of campaigns to the lesson this battle taught him.