Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: The British lose the battle- but are the heroes

The author has taken some pains to be evenhanded, but does not quite make it. The great hero/woodsman of the book is A BRITISH OFFICER! Even though he participates in several losing battles with the "rebels", he always manages to kill a few just before he retreats. Even though it is the colonies that are being invaded by the British army, it is the colonists who are the ones who commit atrocities- on hapless loyalists. The only atrocities commited against the Americans are done by the evil savage, untrustworthy Indian allies. The British soldiers are given a human face, cheerful in the face of adversity. The colonials (except for the artist, who is not a soldier) are pretty much cardboard figures, fueding, vain, petty, for instance, for not giving Arnold his due, who is pictured as a madman, anyway. If you want to cheer for the British, read this book.