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    History of the War in the Peninsular and the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814 Vol. 2
    History of the War in the Peninsular and the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814 Vol. 2
    History of the War in the Peninsular and the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814 Vol. 2
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    History of the War in the Peninsular and the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814 Vol. 2

    By William Francis Patrick Napier

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    Excerpt: "The effect produced in England by the unfortunate issue of sir John Moore’s campaign, was not proportionable to the importance of the subject. The people, trained to party politics, and possessing no real power to rebuke the folly of the cabinet, regarded disasters and triumphs with factious rather than with national feelings, and it was alike easy to draw the public attention from affairs of weight, and to fix it upon matters of little moment. In the beginning of 1809, the duke of York’s conduct being impeached, a parliamentary investigation followed; and to drag the private frailties of that prince before the world, was thought essential to the welfare of the country, when the incapacity which had caused England and Spain to mourn in tears of blood, was left unprobed. An insular people only, who are protected by their situation from the worst evils of war, may suffer themselves to be thus deluded; but if an unfortunate campaign were to bring a devastating enemy into the heart of the country, the honour of a general, and the whole military policy of the cabinet, would no longer be considered as mere subjects for the exercise of a vile sophist’s talents for misrepresentation."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOtbebookpublishing
    Release dateJul 15, 2022
    ISBN9783987444227
    History of the War in the Peninsular and the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814 Vol. 2
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    William Francis Patrick Napier

    General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier KCB (7 December 1785 – 12 February 1860) was an Irish soldier in the British Army and a military historian.

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