They have been furnished with firelocks and powder--by whom?
By the governor in his traffic with them.

If you, good housekeepers, will sustain me, I will assault the savages in their stronghold." All, with one accord, assented and declared themselves willing to be led to the assault.

Bacon was at once chosen as the commander of the army.
When he learned that Robert and his friends had come from Jamestown to aid the people on the frontier, he came to welcome them to his ranks and to assure them that he appreciated their courage and humanity.
"I have relatives and friends who are captives of the Indians," Robert explained, "and I shall rescue them or perish in the effort." "Bravo! spoken like an Englishman.

We are kindling a fire which may yet consume royalty in Virginia." Nathaniel Bacon was politic, however, and before setting out against the Indians dispatched another messenger to Jamestown for a commission as commander.

The game between the man of twenty-eight and the man of seventy had begun.