“We shall be stronger the next campaign than we were in the last,” he told Priestley, “better armed, better disciplined, and with more ammunition…. This war must end in our favor.” He and Silas Deane wrote Congress in April, “All Europe is for us…. We are fighting for the dignity and happiness of human nature…. Every nation in Europe wishes to see Britain humbled, having all in their turn been offended by her insolence.”
