His warlike soul leaped up at the thought of speedy battle that was being offered.

A flame was lighted also in St.Luc's blood, and Bourlamaque was no less eager.

It was no lack of valor and enterprise that caused the French to lose their colonies in North America.
"You know this positively ?" asked the commander-in-chief.
"I have seen it with my own eyes." "Tell it as you saw it." "I lay in the woods above the lake with my men, and I saw the British and Americans go into their boats, a vast flock of them.

They are all afloat on the lake at this moment, and are coming against us." "Could you make a fair estimate of their numbers ?" "I obtained the figures with much exactitude from one or two stragglers that we captured on the land.

My eyes confirm these figures.