John Buchanan, in The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas (1997), p. 316
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This untutored son of the frontier was the only general in the American Revolution, on either side, to produce a significant original tactical thought.
— John Buchan on Daniel Morgan
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About John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and politician who was Governor-General of Canada from 1935 to 1940.
About John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and politician who was Governor-General of Canada from 1935 to 1940.
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