to my son hardy

dear hardy,

           My lad i have to say that this day the 6th of October in the year of seventeen thousand seven hundred and seventy seven of our lord served to be a magnificent day for great Britain. i wish you where there but i understand your mother wishes you to continue you studies at The University of Aberdeen but boy what a world you are missing.
          In this new world the savage Yankees sought to trap us in a narrow part of our Hudson river. to execute what the Greeks did in the battle of Thermopylae. THEY ARE FOOLS why not make a wooden horse or better yet a wooden ass like the Greeks and sail it up the river. these Americans are just rubbish. they sought to hold our royal navy at bay with a chain that would be followed up with a battery of cannon fire coming from fort Montgomery and fort Clinton. This is how they hoped to stop our numbers, laughable! they knew we had better discipline, weapons and a sound Strategy the Yankees thought this old story book strategy would be enough to stop the whole of great britans power od how they where wrong.
soon after the first volley of cannon our lieutenant col. Mungo Campbell  took pity on the yanks and called a truce and proclaimed or rather requested that the "patriots" to surrender and no further harm would come to them. the bloody savage idiots thought they where funny by replying if the British surrender that we would be promised good treatment. this understandably made Lt. Col. Campbell very furious and a another cannon volley ensued.
   Very soon after Campbell him self led us in to a land battle. i past by him and his face was red, i have never seen a man so filled with anger, passion and honor for his country.i hope you become like him when you are older perhaps. he lived his life a true Englishmen and died like one too, fighting and dying for his king. god bless great Britain.
    this battle lasted in till dark, again the American found a way to make this easier for us! by not completing there bloody fort! how can you have a sound battlement with it only half way done. These yanks are by far the most idiotic people i have come to see in my life. With our bayonets bloody uniforms covered  in human bile our bayonets bloody we pushed the idiots off the fort.
   it was simple the Americans where over whelmed by great Britain sheer numbers with British, American loyalist and Hessian soldiers the Americans never stood a chance. once we had captured  the forts we burned what was left and tore down what we could not burn. the Americans who where smart surrendered and where sent to the sugar house prisons in new york.
that is my tale of war for you my son i have seen many things i hope to share them with you. maybe one day you will write a book about it. who knows .

with much love your father
god save the king