Yet in all fairness to them, they were matched in overall ineptness by the cabinet and their monarch

From The Road to Guilford Courthouse by John Buchanan. Page 78.

Cornwallis returned to America that June as Clinton’s second in command. He almost immediately tried to resign, but the King refused his request. Primadonnish characteristics are not unknown among generals of any nation, but was a country ever cursed as Britain in the late eighteenth century with such a collection of temperamental, argumentative soldiers? And not one of them was a truly first-rate general. Yet in all fairness to them, they were matched in overall ineptness by the cabinet and their monarch.