We will now see how Red Coat feels." A portion of the army that had retreated from Ticonderoga was camped on the flats near the town, and Robert and Tayoga walked swiftly toward the tents.

It was a much more silent force, British and American, than that which had gone forth not so very long ago to what seemed certain victory.

Officers and men were angry.

They felt that they had been beaten when there was no reason why they should have been defeated.
Obeying orders, they had retreated in sullen silence, when they had felt sure they could have gone on, fought a new battle, and have crushed Montcalm.

Now they waited impatiently for another call to advance on Canada, and win back their lost laurels.