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Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine, 1796–1812

by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

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No. 9

The English appear to have received reinforcements.—Imagine a Transvaal with a population of ten millions, and one has a fair idea of the French difficulties in Spain, even without Portugal. The Spaniards could not fight a scientific battle like Jena or Friedland, but they were incomparable at guerilla warfare. The Memoirs of Barons Marbot and Lejeune have well demonstrated this. The latter, an accomplished linguist, sent to locate Moore’s army, found that to pass as an Englishman the magic words “Damn it,” won him complete success.

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