These fine twelve-pounders were sources of much moral courage and added greatly to the spirits of the troops.

They had shown their power at the forcing of the ford and at the taking of the ridge, and their brazen mouths, menacing the forest, looked well.
Willet and his comrades considered it their duty to stay there also, and wait for Abercrombie, and, the third day after the retreat of St.
Luc, Robert and Tayoga went into the woods to see whether Tandakora had turned back again with his warriors.

They reckoned that the Ojibway chief's anger was so strong that he would make another attempt at revenge upon those who had defeated him.

There was a rumor that the Indians with the French were becoming much dissatisfied, that they were awed by the reports of the mighty British and American force advancing under Abercrombie, and might leave the French to meet it alone.
"Do you think there is much in these rumors ?" asked Robert, as he and the Onondaga went into the forest.
"I do," replied Tayoga.

"The warriors with the French do not like the cannon, and they say the force that is coming against Montcalm is very vast.