Robert was mounted on an English bay, a famous fox-hunter, and accustomed to leaping barriers.

Bacon knew nothing of the science of Indian warfare, even if he knew anything of war at all.

Indian tactics are entirely different from civilized warfare and require a different mode to meet them; but though the hero of Virginia four years before was thoroughly ignorant of Indians, he seemed to acquire the necessary knowledge in a moment.

He was the man for the occasion.
Side by side Bacon and Robert dashed at the palisade and leaped their horses over it.

They emptied their rifles and fired their pistols at such close range, that the effect was murderous.