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" British " $nd " Americans " as separate nations,
and it so happened that the defeat which the
" British " sujfFered at Pittsburg was suffered in
the " American " cause.

The defeat was a small affair and perhaps
hardly worth commemorating, anyhow. But one
can hardly help reflecting that, if there had been
more and greater defeats of the same kind, tSie
French would have become the masters of North
America, the whole history of the country diverted
into another channel and the " American dream "
never realized. The Daughters of the American
Revolution should have considered this when
putting up their monument. They should have
remembered that the defeated " British " were
fighting a battle for the mothers of the Revolution
as well as its daughters, and phrased their inscrip-
tion accordingly. The troops defeated were
British; but the cause defeated was the cause of
Anglo-Saxon America.

Among the military heroes deserving a statue
for the part they played in the foundation of
the American Republic, it seems strange—if one
looks at the matter in historical perspective—that
the Americans have overlooked the claim of
General Wolfe, the British general who defeated
the brave and formidable Montcalm at Quebec
in 1759. At that time it was touch-and-go
whether the Latin or the Anglo-Saxon race
was to be the master of North America. For
nearly a hundred years the issue between the