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.
There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.
What, do they run already? Then I die happy.
You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.