I shall take every man who can carry arms, and leave ten at the breastwork to defend it; but there is no chance whatever of their attempting to come up here while we are attacking them, so you need have no fear." "We shall not be afraid, Colonel Campbell, our confidence in you is absolute; but do you not think that you are running a great risk in attacking a force some forty times as large as your own ?" "One cannot call it a force, it is simply a mob, and a mob that has suffered a terrible repulse, and the loss of three or four hundred men tonight.

We shall take them by surprise.

I am going to mount all the tenants.

MacIntosh tells me that they have all been drilled as cavalry as well as infantry.

He, with the twenty men of the regular garrison on foot and ten of the tenants, will make straight for the guns.