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A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809

Note 179 — SECTION IV: CHAPTER II

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I cannot quite credit the story that Toreño and Arteche repeat of Pitt’s dying prophecy, that ‘Napoleon could only be overthrown by a national war, and that such a war would probably begin in Spain.’

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