Original sentence: "  General Charles Lee, who had desired to lead militia forces, complained: "As to the minutemen, no account ought to be made of them."  George Washington is also well known for a long series of scathing opinion of the failures of the militia forces.A euphoria over the Minutemen's early victory in the Revolutionary War has bred some historically inaccurate myths.Even Samuel Adams, who was at Lexington on the day of the famous clash, later said:  "Would any man in his sense, who wishes war may be carried on with vigor, prefer the temporary and expensive drafts of militia to a permanent and well-appointed army.Paul Revere's Ride, a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is criticized by historians, as being historically inaccurate.The success at Lexington has been seen to overshadow the long history of failures of the colonial militia