Talk:John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun

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John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun seems so to have confounded historians that not a good word can be found to have been said about him, like the last lord Dudley, but still worthy of note, I hope.Faedra 19:03, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC) (HELP REQUIRED HERE)!..

Anybody interested in Loudoun's activities during the French and Indian War should read Stanley Pargellis, Lord Loudoun in North America (Archon Books, 1968). Pargellis makes it clear that Loudoun was not the incompetent general he is often made out to be. Although no military genius, he did much to improve the logistics and training of the British army. The reasons for his dismissal were essentially political, and he did much to prepare the way for the British victories under his successors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.176.198.239 (talk) 18:39, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

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This article might actually not be critical enough
See article here:. Suggests that Loudoun was a serial blunderer and procrastinator his entire career, and that his abuses of the colonials (especially in forced quartering of troops on a large scale) even had something to do with specific demands in the Declaration of Independence. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  20:44, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

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Our article calls him (for his time in America) "Commander-in-Chief and Governor General of Virginia", and there doesn't seem to be a source for this. "Commander-in-Chief" even sounds like an Americanism to me. J. Telfer Dunbar, History of Highland Dress (1979), p. 177, says he was "Captain General of H.M. Forces in North America". — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  20:46, 22 June 2023 (UTC)