The fleets could spare 4000 or 5000 men, and their help might be useful.

Do you think the Russians will fight ?" "All soldiers will fight," Captain Lancaster said, "when they've got a strong position.

It needs a very different sort of courage to lie down on the crest of a hill and fire at an enemy struggling up it in full view, to that which is necessary to make the assault.

They have too all the advantage of knowing the ground, while we know absolutely nothing about it.

I don't believe that the generals have any more idea than we have.