and several dates both earlier and later have been assigned to the
disastrous visit to Chote to which reference is here made.

6 Page 82. Washington readily recognized the futility of the cumbrous
regular military methods in a rough, unsettled country. On the Forbes
expedition, to counteract the French and their Indian allies, Washington
continually sent out small parties of the Cherokees under his command.
"Small parties of Indians," said he, "will more effectually harass the
enemy by keeping them under continual alarms than any parties of white
men can do." However, "with all his efforts," says Irving, "he was never
able to make the officers of the regular army appreciate the importance
of Indian allies in these campaigns in the wilderness." But the fact has
been taught elsewhere, both earlier and later than Washington's day.
General Gordon, in his journal, says of the Soudan: "A heavy lumbering
column is nowhere in this land. Parties of forty or sixty men moving
swiftly about will do more than any column. Native allies, above all
things, at whatever cost. It is the country of the irregular, not of the
regular. I can say I owe the defeats in this country to having artillery
with me, which delayed me much, and it was the artillery with Hicks
which in my opinion did for him." And as if he himself merely turned
back a leaf instead of the pages of centuries, he here inserts an
extract from Herodotus: "Cambyses marched against the Ethiopians without
making any provision for the subsistence of his army or once considering
that he was going to carry his arms to the remotest parts of the world,
but as a madman ... before the army had passed over a fifth of the way
all the provisions were exhausted, and the beasts of burden were
eaten.... Now if Cambyses had then led his army back he would have
proved himself a wise man. He, however, went on ... the report was that
heaps of sand covered them over, and they disappeared." Gordon comments,
"Hicks' army disappeared. The expedition was made into these lands."

7 Page 137. This pride flourished probably too far on the frontier to be
deteriorated by the knowledge of the gradual decline in the popularity
of the periwig then in progress, for only a few years later the
wig-makers of London found it necessary to petition the king, setting
forth their distresses occasioned by the perversity of the men of his
realm in persisting in wearing their own hair. The most definite outcome
of this