I thank you, Colonel de St.Luc, for your gallant and timely words, I have been wavering and they have decided me.

We stay here and await the Anglo-American army." "And the star of France will not fail us," said St Luc, with intense conviction.
"I trust not.

I feel more confidence since I have decided, and I do know this: the young men who are my lieutenants are as brave and skillful leaders as any chief could desire.

And the troops will fight even ten to one, if I ask it of them.

It is a pleasure and a glory to command troops of such incomparable bravery as the French.