June 18, 1775
Dear Diary,
It was a grave day for the lives of many of my soldiers. This is truly the beginning of a war, the spilling over of the cup that evermore has water been poured into. As im writing now, we have won at the cost of roughly a thousand men. The win also dissapoints me, as we defeated no honorable enemy, and to lose so many dismounting the rebels from their hilltop postion shows a lack of British supiriority. We failed on the first two of three charges upon the hilltop, finally amassing upon the colonists in the third. While I may doubt upon the manner of my victory, word is the colonists are celebrating the mere fact they werent desecrated within an hour. I almost wish i had their opptimism, although, how many men does optimism account for on the battlefield? None. It is simply a must to outnumber their optimism with the amount of lead breaking their lines.
General William Howe
