Braddock was brave, but he should have remembered that he was not in Europe.

The Marquis de Montcalm remembers it.

He made no mistake at Oswego and he is making none here.

He took the Indian chiefs into council, as we have just seen.

He placates them, he humors their whims, and he draws out of them their full fighting power to be used for the French cause." Tayoga ranged about the shallow valley a little, and announced that the whole force had gone on together the morning after the encampment.
"The artillery and the infantry were in close ranks," he said, "and the warriors were on either flank, scouting in the forest, forming a fringe which kept off possible scouts of the English and Americans.