It's irony because Fortunato's name means fortunate and he ends up in an unfortunate situation.
His first language was truble
It was the
strategy of Attrition.<span>Washington saw, particularly
after the fall of New York in 1776, that, despite the fact that his little
armed force couldn't guard every one of the urban areas in America, its
presence only guaranteed that the revolution would proceed. Without a genuine
normal armed force, he stayed away from any definitive conflict with the expert
English forces in favor of a strategy of attrition, fighting just when the
chances were unmistakably to support him.</span>
