...innate strength. During these contests, disease and weapons had slain 30,000 of the colonists. They had also spent more than $16,000,000, of which $5,000,000 had been reimbursed by Parliament. Massachusetts alone had kept from 4,000 to 7,000 men in the field, besides garrisons and recruits to the regular regiments. They served but a few months in the year, and were fed at the cost of the British gover...