First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

by Thomas E. Ricks

Braddock “slighted & neglected” the tribal scouts, “and they gradually left him.” When Franklin expressed some doubts to Braddock himself, he added, the general responded dismissively that “these Savages may indeed be a formidable Enemy to your raw America Militia; but, upon the King’s regular & disciplin’d Troops, Sir, it is impossible they should make any Impression.”49