Jackson on the right scarcely moved, but all the while he attentively watched through his glasses the great cannonade.

Nearly all the soldiers were lying down, and to most of them the earth seemed to heave with the shock of all those blazing cannon.
Harry and Dalton walked once to the point where the Invincibles lay.
That is, all but Colonel Leonidas Talbot and Lieutenant-Colonel St.Hilaire were lying down.

They stood rigidly erect, their eyes on the great cannonade, and as Harry approached they were exchanging brief comments with each other.
"What harm does that cannonade do, Hector ?" asked Colonel Talbot.
"Much to the town, little to us." "What a pity we don't have an artillery equal to theirs." "A great pity, Leonidas." "They will presently move forward in much greater force to finish the bridge." "Undoubtedly, Leonidas.

They have shown folly, wasting the lives of such brave men in small efforts one after another.

They will try something else." "I see a great many boats against the bank on their side of the river.
I fancy they will use them in their next attempt, whatever it may be." "I agree with you.