What, do they run already? Then I die happy.
There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.
Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.
A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.
War is an option of difficulties.
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.