 Not just American historians. When Washington with a few thousand troops attacks a German Hessian force three times the size right before dawn, the Germans panicked. They said we had a thousand people shooting at him at 200 yards away and we couldn't hit him. They were like scared. And Washington would say it was the hand of Providence, that it was the hand of Providence that came through. There were there a bunch of times, by the way, that that happened to him during more than 20 of his troops. The French Indian was to death that night.