John F. Ross > Quotes

“The Americans are in general the dirtiest, most contemptible cowardly dogs that you can conceive. There is no depending upon ’em in action. They fall down dead in their own dirt and desert by battalions, officers and all. Such rascals as those are rather an incumbrance than any real strength to an army. JAMES WOLFE TO HIS FATHER, MAY 20, 1758”
― John F. Ross, War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier

“Journal writers record the tide of sickness, fever, and death with a matter-of-factness that is almost chilling to modern eyes. By the age of twenty everyone had witnessed dozens of deaths, very often of siblings, perhaps of one’s mother in childbirth, and definitely of neighbors and friends to accidents and disease.”
― John F. Ross, War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier

“To a man accustomed to hand-to-hand combat in the forest, the tangle of growing debts at first appeared no more than a minor civil hindrance. But like a series of Lilliputian strings, these entanglements would begin to slow even the intrepid major”
― John F. Ross, War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier

“Though I live a thousand years,” recalled Pershing’s chief of staff, “I shall never forget that crowded hour.”
― John F. Ross, Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbaker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed

“Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules Of Hector and Lysander, and such great names as these: But of all the world’s great heroes, there’s none that can compare, With a tow, row, row, row, row, row, to the British Grenadiers.”
― John F. Ross, War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier