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A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809

Note 321 — SECTION XIII: CHAPTER VI

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See his conversation with his aide-de-camp, St. Chamans, in the latter’s Mémoires, p. 139. The Marshal said that he was in a hazardous military position and that ‘je ne puis m’en tirer qu’en divisant les Portugais entre eux, et j’emploie pour cela le meilleur moyen politique qui soit en mon pouvoir.’ Compare Fantin des Odoards, p. 227.

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