We should have been greatly damaged by the fire of their guns and muskets; but he kept us all lying down, out of reach, till we were wanted, while the men with the guns defended the line of fallen trees.

When we were wanted, he called us up by blowing a cow horn, and then we drove the Blues back into the stream, and returned to our shelter until we were wanted again.
"We did not lose more than thirty men, altogether; while more than ten times that number of the Blues have fallen.

We thought at first that you had chosen rather a strange leader for us; but as always you were right, for if you had been there, yourself, things could not have gone better." "But I sent no one as your commander," Cathelineau said in surprise.
"He had a paper that he read out, saying that he was acting on your orders.

As I cannot read, I cannot say that it was written down as he read it; but if you did not send him, God must have done so." "It is strange, Bonchamp," Cathelineau said to that officer, "for I certainly did not send anyone.

I never thought of defending the passage of that stream.