He wished to think less and to act more, and he shared with Mr.Huysman and Mr.McLean the belief that the coming campaign would win for England and her colonies a complete triumph.
He too thrilled at the name of Pitt.

The very sound of the four letters seemed to carry magic everywhere, with the young English officers on the ship, in Boston, in Albany, and he had noticed too that it inspired the same confidence at the little towns at which they stopped on their way across Massachusetts.

Like a blast on the horn of the mighty Roland, the call of Pitt was summoning the English-speaking world to arms.

Robert little dreamed then, despite the words of Colonel Strong, that the great cleavage would come, and that the call would not be repeated until more than a century and a half had passed, though then it would sound around the world summoning new English-speaking nations not then born.
Rogers, the famous ranger, upon whom Tayoga had bestowed the name Mountain Wolf, arrived the next day, bringing with him fifty men whom he supplied with ammunition for one of his great raids.

The rest of his band was waiting for him near the southern end of Lake George, and he could stay only a few hours in Albany.