They captured ten field pieces when they defeated the troops, and have obtained a score of others from the chateaux that they have taken.

They have only to plant them three or four hundred yards away at the end of the plateau, and they would easily batter down the gates, and might even in time effect a breach in the walls." "That is serious indeed, MacIntosh.

Is there any other way in which they can attack us save in front ?" "I think not.

I was careful to examine the face of the precipice when I first took command here, and wherever it seemed to me that an active man could climb up I had portions of the rock blown up, and have so scarped the face that I do not think it is scalable by human foot.

But there is nothing to prevent their crossing the fosse on a dark night, and so stealing along and making an attack on all sides of the house." "Then our first care must be to prevent this, MacIntosh, by building walls along by the fosse from the corner towers to the edge of the plateau.