was to lure the Redcoats out of their lines so that Tommy and Johnny could slip through. The Captain had told them that he hoped to be at the English line just before daylight. ‘That is the time when people sleep heaviest,’ Captain Dick told them. ‘Never attack an enemy camp in the dead of night, for the guards are very much awake then. Attack when dawn is near. They always think that all danger is past by then.’
