You are rebels, and there is no place for defeated rebels but the depths of the wilderness.

Spain has been coquetting with these colonies, but she will come back to the side of the English monarchy where she belongs.

The monarchies must stand together against all rebels." "How do you know that Spain will help England to fight us ?" asked Henry.
Alvarez smiled once more, but the smile now, instead of being merely winning, was superior.
"It is a long distance from here to Europe," he replied, "but news may come even into the depths of the woods.

I have many friends in Spain, friends near the court, who inform me whenever the wind changes." Henry did not like that superior smile.

It was a mistake of Francisco Alvarez, a mistake that many strong men make, to assume a patronizing manner even for a moment in the presence of another who was also strong.
Henry's intuition at once put him on guard at all points.
"I have heard," he said, "that Bernardo Galvez, the Spanish Governor General at New Orleans, is no friend of the British power.