The French and Indian host, in this case, is led by St.Luc, the ablest and most daring of all their partisans, and, unless you give help, they'll have to escape as best they can in what boats they have." "As I'm a good Massachusetts man, I expected something of this kind.

I sent word to Pownall, our Governor, that we must be extremely cautious in respect to the French, but he thinks the army of General Abercrombie will overwhelm everything.

Forest fighting is very different from that of the open fields, a fact which the French seem to have mastered better than we have.

My name, young sir, is Elihu Strong.

I'm a colonel of the Massachusetts militia, and I command the force that you see posted here." "And mine, sir, is Robert Lennox, a free lance, and this is Tayoga, of the clan of the Bear, of the great Onondaga nation, a devoted friend of ours and the finest trailer the world has ever produced." "Ah, I heard something of you both when I was at Albany from one Jacobus Huysman, a stout and worthy burgher, who spoke well of you, and who hazarded a surmise that I might meet you somewhere in the neighborhood of the lakes." "We lived in the house of Mynheer Jacobus when we went to school in Albany.