little whether the work of the painter is in exact accordance
with the real scene or not. The daring courage, the high resolve,
the stern look forward and onward, which the artist strove to
show in the great leader, are all vitally true. For we may be
sure that the man who led that well-planned but desperate
assault, surrounded by darker conditions than the storms of
nature which gathered about his boat, and carrying with him the
fortunes of his country, was at that moment one of the most
heroic figures in history.



BENNINGTON

We are but warriors for the working-day;
Our gayness and our guilt are all besmirch'd
With rainy marching in the painful field;
There's not a piece of feather in our host
(Good argument, I hope, we shall not fly),
And time hath worn us into slovenry.
But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim,
And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night
They'll be in fresher robes.
--Henry V.


BENNINGTON

The battle of Saratoga is included by Sir Edward Creasy among his
fifteen decisive battles which have, by their result, affected