All that had gone before was mere preparation.

He had felt the difference at once when he came back from his island.

The old indecision, doubt and despondency were gone; now there was a mighty upward surge.

Everybody was full of hope, and the evidence of one's own eyes showed that the Anglo-American line was moving forward at all points.

A great army would soon be converging on Ticonderoga, where a great army had been defeated the year before, but now there would be no Montcalm to meet.