Indians are always inflamed by a long and desperate resistance and while Captain de Jumonville and I will do our best to restrain them, it's possible that they may escape from our control in the hour of victory." Young Colden smiled again.

With Willet at his right hand and Robert at his left, he acquired lightness of spirit.
"A demand and a threat together," he replied.

"For the threat we don't care.

We don't believe you'll ever see that hour of victory in which you can't control your Indians, and there'll be no need for you, Colonel de Courcelles, to apologize for a massacre committed by your allies, and which you couldn't help.

We're also growing used to requests of surrender.
"There was your countryman, St.Luc, a very brave and skillful man, who asked it of us, but we declined, and in the end we defeated him.