You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.
I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.
Now God be praised, I will die in peace.
War is an option of difficulties.
There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.
Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.