Note 425 — SECTION VII: CHAPTER II
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The clearest proof which I find in the Napoleon Correspondance of the Emperor’s intention to sweep over the whole Peninsula, with a single rush, is that already in November he was assembling at Bayonne naval officers who were to take charge of the port of Lisbon, and to reorganize the Portuguese fleet. This was a little premature! (See Napoleon to Decrès, Minister of Marine, Nap. Corresp., 14,514, vol. xviii.)