Therefore, while their careless confidence continues, and they are still thinking, as in my judgment they are now doing, more of retreat than of maintaining their position, while their spirit is slack and not high-strung with expectation, I with the men under my command will, if possible, take them by surprise and fall with a run upon their centre;
horregatik, abileziaz baliatuta erasotzea erabaki zuen, etsaiei bere tropen benetako kopurua eta armamendua-soil eta xumea-erakusteak ez ziolakoan emango haiei garaitzeko aukera hobea, aldez aurretik errealitatea ikusi eta horrek etsaiarengan eragingo zuen mespretxuagatik.