The affair was indecisive, if a battle can be called so in which an inferior force attacks a superior, inflicts an equal loss, and frustrates the main object of the enemy.
General Lee, unable with an inferior force to drive the enemy from West Virginia, had been transferred to South Carolina on November 1.
In the second place, it is generally possible for an inferior force, if it puts every man into the fighting-line, to win some measure of success.
But the enemy, whether by skill or good fortune, had occupied with his main line a position admirably adapted for an inferior force.
Washington, though so long in doubt, was on hand to dispute the road, but in inferior force; and Howe had no great difficulty in fighting his way to Philadelphia, which was occupied on the 26th of September.
This was the original and enduring cause of a lamentable failure by which seven of the rear ships, in an inferior force undertaking to attack, never came into battle at all.
This makes it easy for an inferior force to delay, if not defeat, a far superior one.
A French frigate of thirty-six guns was taken by captain Parker, in a new fire-ship of inferior force.
And here again we must guard ourselves from thinking that inferior force--inferior in number or inferior in quality--has no chance against a superior.
The writer, personally, attaches but little importance to the actual consequences of strictly offensive operations attempted by a "fleet in being," when of so inferior force.
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