. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. CHAPTER XXXIII. Colonel Bouquet and the Royal Americans. N view of the scarcity of troopsavailable for the operations ofthe British Government the thoughtsuggested itself, to those in author-ity, of relieving the situation by theenlistment of persons of alien blood,to serve especially in the Province ofPennsylvania, where most of such ___ were to be found. Recognizing, at the same time, the aversion of the Ger-mans to serve under officers who could not speak theirtongue nor understand their characteristics, it was mostsensibly decided to comm
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. CHAPTER XXXIII. Colonel Bouquet and the Royal Americans. N view of the scarcity of troopsavailable for the operations ofthe British Government the thoughtsuggested itself, to those in author-ity, of relieving the situation by theenlistment of persons of alien blood,to serve especially in the Province ofPennsylvania, where most of such ___ were to be found. Recognizing, at the same time, the aversion of the Ger-mans to serve under officers who could not speak theirtongue nor understand their characteristics, it was mostsensibly decided to commission, for this purpose, a certainnumber of experienced foreigners. The result of the decision thus reached is embodied inthe following extract from a letter of March 13, 1756,from Secretary of State, H. Fox, to Governor Morris,which was read by him to the Council, at its meeting ofJune 29, 1756. Whitehall, 13th March, 1756. It having been represented that a Number of the For- (489) 49° The Pennsylvania-German Society. eign Settlers in America m
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