We must fight our battles by inches, and be satisfied, if, when dying, we can think that we have left to our children a probability of final victory.
Normandy and the Gironde may be unwilling to submit to the Jacobin leaders, but they are as yet as warmly attached to the Republic as Paris itself.

And, Bonchamps, you little know the dispositions and character of the men, who at our bidding have left their homes and come to Saumur, if you think that at our bidding they will march to Paris; they are even now burning to return home, to recount to their wives and children what they have done.
"Not half the number that came to Saumur would leave the town with us on the road to Paris; and before we could reach Tours, the army would have melted away from us like snow from a mountain top, when the sun begins to shine.

It is here, in our own locality, that we should endeavour to extend our influence.

In Southern Brittany the people, I believe, are with us, but the towns are full of the troops of the Republic.

Let us drive them out of Angers, Ancenis, and Nantes, as we have driven them from Saumur.