They might have cut off his supplies from Waterford.

They might have starved him out in his camp here.

They have had the game in their hands, and they have allowed it to slip altogether through their fingers.

The only hope I have, now, is that before the spring the French will go.

It is but too clear that Louis has no intention, whatever, of helping us in earnest.
Had he chosen he could, any time during the last six months, have landed an army here, which would have decided the struggle.