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Essays and addresses

Simcoes difficulties with Dorchester crop up at every turn.

The truth is that he was in a false position, being in military subordination to the governor-in-chief (who detested and thwarted him), while he was responsible for the government of the province, itself largely military in character.

While his sovereign "gloried in the name of Briton" or Bute said he did Simcoe did not.

He was not a Briton, he was an English-man.

He had not got as yet so far as to complain of Scotsmen being advanced in the army that was to come later; but in his mind England was the Empire, and everything English was to be the model in his province.