Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington 1831-1851 by Philip Henry 5th Earl of Stanhope

Author:Philip Henry, 5th Earl of Stanhope [Philip Henry, 5th Earl of Stanhope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, Napoleonic Wars, Europe, France, Spain & Portugal, Great Britain, General
ISBN: 9781908692351
Google: hdhvCwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2011-01-20T04:55:26+00:00

The French, when first they entered Portugal under Junot, met with no resistance at all; had they done so, they could not have got to Lisbon, their route being most rugged, and the rainy season just beginning.

Is it not singular, asked Arbuthnot, that when Marshal Massena invaded Portugal, he should not have been aware of the natural defences and strength of the country about Torres Vedras?

"He had no want of persons able to inform him, there being with him the Marquis d'Alorna and General Pamplona. They both assured him that the country was open between the Mondego and Lisbon—as indeed it is in one sense. So when Massena came before our lines and was stopped by them, he reproached these gentlemen with having deceived him. They retorted that it was the Marshal's business and not theirs to have received information of the works which Lord Wellington had lately constructed. Que diable! answered Massena, il n'a pas construit ces montagnes!

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