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"
For
this
I
thank
thee
,
Lord
!
Let
danger
come
as
it
will
,
thy
servant
is
now
prepared
!
"
"
Then
go
we
in
,
to
know
his
embassy
;
Which
I
could
,
with
ready
guess
,
declare
,
Before
the
Frenchman
speak
a
word
of
it
.
"
King
Henry
V.
A
few
succeeding
days
were
passed
amid
the
privations
,
the
uproar
,
and
the
dangers
of
the
siege
,
which
was
vigorously
pressed
by
a
power
against
whose
approaches
Munro
possessed
no
competent
means
of
resistance
.
It
appeared
as
if
Webb
,
with
his
army
,
which
lay
slumbering
on
the
banks
of
the
Hudson
,
had
utterly
forgotten
the
strait
to
which
his
countrymen
were
reduced
.
Montcalm
had
filled
the
woods
of
the
portage
with
his
savages
,
every
yell
and
whoop
from
whom
rang
through
the
British
encampment
,
chilling
the
hearts
of
men
who
were
already
but
too
much
disposed
to
magnify
the
danger
.
Not
so
,
however
,
with
the
besieged
.
Animated
by
the
words
,
and
stimulated
by
the
examples
,
of
their
leaders
,
they
had
found
their
courage
,
and
maintained
their
ancient
reputation
,
with
zeal
that
did
justice
to
the
stern
character
of
their
commander
.
As
if
satisfied
with
the
toil
of
marching
through
the
wilderness
to
encounter
his
enemy
,
the
French
general
,
though
of
approved
skill
,
had
neglected
to
seize
the
adjacent
mountains
;
whence
the
besieged
might
have
been
exterminated
with
impunity
,
and
which
,
in
the
more
modern
warfare
of
the
country
,
would
not
have
been
neglected
for
a
single
hour
.
This
sort
of
contempt
for
eminences
,
or
rather
dread
of
the
labor
of
ascending
them
,
might
have
been
termed
the
besetting
weakness
of
the
warfare
of
the
period
.
It
originated
in
the
simplicity
of
the
Indian
contests
,
in
which
,
from
the
nature
of
the
combats
,
and
the
density
of
the
forests
,
fortresses
were
rare
,
and
artillery
next
to
useless
.
The
carelessness
engendered
by
these
usages
descended
even
to
the
war
of
the
Revolution
,
and
lost
the
States
the
important
fortress
of
Ticonderoga
,
opening
a
way
for
the
army
of
Burgoyne
into
what
was
then
the
bosom
of
the
country
.
We
look
back
at
this
ignorance
,
or
infatuation
,
whichever
it
may
be
called
,
with
wonder
,
knowing
that
the
neglect
of
an
eminence
,
whose
difficulties
,
like
those
of
Mount
Defiance
,
have
been
so
greatly
exaggerated
,
would
,
at
the
present
time
,
prove
fatal
to
the
reputation
of
the
engineer
who
had
planned
the
works
at
their
base
,
or
to
that
of
the
general
whose
lot
it
was
to
defend
them
.
The
tourist
,
the
valetudinarian
,
or
the
amateur
of
the
beauties
of
nature
,
who
,
in
the
train
of
his
four-in-hand
,
now
rolls
through
the
scenes
we
have
attempted
to
describe
,
in
quest
of
information
,
health
,
or
pleasure
,
or
floats
steadily
towards
his
object
on
those
artificial
waters
which
have
sprung
up
under
the
administration
of
a
statesman
who
has
dared
to
stake
his
political
character
on
the
hazardous
issue
,
is
not
to
suppose
that
his
ancestors
traversed
those
hills
,
or
struggled
with
the
same
currents
with
equal
facility
.
The
transportation
of
a
single
heavy
gun
was
often
considered
equal
to
a
victory
gained
;
if
,
happily
,
the
difficulties
of
the
passage
had
not
so
far
separated
it
from
its
necessary
concomitant
,
the
ammunition
,
as
to
render
it
no
more
than
an
useless
tube
of
unwieldy
iron
.
