Memoirs of the War in Spain by Albert Jean Michel de Rocca Anon

Author:Albert Jean Michel de Rocca, Anon [Albert Jean Michel de Rocca, Anon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908902085
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Publisher: Wagram Press
Published: 2011-09-05T00:00:00+00:00

The districts of Spain occupied by the French were soon overrun by bands of partisans and guerillas, composed of the soldiers of dispersed armies, and the inhabitants of the plains and mountains. Clergymen, husbandmen, students, and simple shepherds, became active and enterprising chiefs. Leaders like these, without military authority, without regular troops, could prove at first only banners, so to speak, around whom the peasantry could by turns fight and rally. The report of any little success gained by these numerous parties, was greedily devoured by the people, and narrated with Southern exaggeration. It elevated their spirits, which defeat in other quarters might for a moment have depressed. That very restlessness of imagination, and that spirit of extra independence, which had done injury to the slow and undecided operations of the regular armies of the Junta, now constituted the strength of the popular contest. It might thus be said of the Spaniards, that if they were at first an easy prey to the conqueror, to subdue them was an almost impossible task.

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