But did they waver or turn back?
Not them.

They were many yards from the fort, and their orders were to storm it.

On they rushed, the officers well in front, waving their swords in the air and shouting cheerfully to their men to follow.

Three officers, Vernon, Sandford, and Paton, seem to have made a race of it.

Through that terrible zone of fire these young Englishmen rushed forward with all the zeal of men striving to be first to touch the tape.