"Sharpshooting Americans, numbering fifteen  hundred and strongly entrenched, mowed down the advancing redcoats with frightful slaughter. But the colonists’ scanty store of gunpowder  finally gave out, and they were forced to abandon the hill in disorder. With two more such victories,
remarked the French foreign minister, the British would have no army left in America"   American Pagent page #144

 The colonists were "not the despicable rabble too many have supposed them to be." 'Wow. They're less of a despicable rabble than I thought they were.' "These people show a spirit and conduct against us they never showed against the French" "Everybody has judged of them from their former appearance and behavior when joined with the King's forces in the last war, which has led many into great mistakes. They are now spirited up by a rage and enthusiasm as great as [ever] people were possessed of"