segunda-feira, março 15, 2004
«There are certainly many bad roads in Portugal, but the enemy has taken decidedly the worst in the whole kingdom.
You will hear a good deal of these movements, and I conclude that it will be necessary to appease the mob by the imprisonment of a few French partizans ; but I think the enemy are mistaken in their plan : they evidently do not know the country, and in the mean time we are safe.»
Lieut. General Viscount Wellington, K.B., to C. Stuart, Esq.
Cortiço, 18th September 1810,
N.B.: Terceira invasão francesa (Massena)
You will hear a good deal of these movements, and I conclude that it will be necessary to appease the mob by the imprisonment of a few French partizans ; but I think the enemy are mistaken in their plan : they evidently do not know the country, and in the mean time we are safe.»
Lieut. General Viscount Wellington, K.B., to C. Stuart, Esq.
Cortiço, 18th September 1810,
N.B.: Terceira invasão francesa (Massena)
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