A View of the State of the Nation And of the Measures of the Last Five Years

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A View of the State of the Nation And of the Measures of the Last Five Years
Thomas Peregrine Courtenay
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express/a of this compendious history, may be steadily kept in view, while the facts of the campaign are under consideration.
and inasmuch as he never got further than Taluvera, he is said to have been defeated in the object of his expedition, which is accordingly censured as impru- dent, rash and wild. ! Yet the fact . Is, - that he entered Spain with a specific object, which object he accom- plished. That he was induced, by any consider- ation, to use his discretion in moving into Spain, is a
... matter of accusation with Lord Grey ; how justly, the motives and the result of his movements must jointly enable us to decide.
When the British army returned to Coimbra in the end of May, Victor, who (as has been stated *) previously threatened the Portuguese capital, being within a few leagues of the frontiers, and dirertly 6i\ the road to Lisbon, withdrew himself from that po- sition, but still continued between the Tagus and the Guadiana f. To dislodge him from this position was the concern of the Spanish general Cuesta, the scat of whose government was also endangered by his presence, no less than of Sir Arthur Wellesley ; a concerted plan, for this express purpose, was the na- tural consequence of this similarity of interests ; and such was accordingly arranged J between the two commanders.


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