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Was it not said that we should expend before this place many millions of gold and many millions of men with a chance of taking it, perhaps, in three years?
Yet, when the resolution was taken to attack it by assault, the month of November being well advanced, there was not a soul but cried out.

The best intentioned avowed that it showed blindness, and the rest said that we must be afraid lest our soldiers should not die soon enough of misery and hunger, and must wish to drown them in their own trenches.