They seem to be getting our range at last.

Tell the men to keep well under cover.

They must not expose themselves until we are ready to charge." The shock had brought him back to his duty as a leader of his little company, and with the funeral bell of all his life's happiness tolling in his agonized heart he turned afresh to directing the fire upon the block-house.
About this time a runner came from Clark with an order to cease firing and let a returning party of British scouts under Captain Lamothe re-enter the fort unharmed.

A strange order it seemed to both officers and men; but it was implicitly obeyed.

Clark's genius here made another fine strategic flash.