The caricature of the British generals of the American Revolution is one of them prancing about in their splendid red uniforms, dipping snuff, looking down their snooty noses at the silly-billy Americans, and cowering from the slaughter, lest their wigs get mussed… (click on the link below to read the full essay by Alan Pell Crawford)

Source: Was Cornwallis a Coward? – The Imaginative Conservative