Wellington, soldier and statesman, and the revival of the military power of England . ,/. From the Pyrenees to the Garonne 217 San Sebastian by a main road along the Spanishverge of the Pyrenees ; this could not be left as amenace on Wellingtons flank, should he attemptto force the Pyrenean barrier. But the principal ob-stacle to the suggested movement was the presenceof Suchet in the eastern provinces of Spain, dispos-ing of a well-organised and still powerful army. TheMarshal, no doubt, had been held in check by theexpedition which had landed from Sicily and bythe guerrillas in Aragon and Ca
Wellington, soldier and statesman, and the revival of the military power of England . ,/. From the Pyrenees to the Garonne 217 San Sebastian by a main road along the Spanishverge of the Pyrenees ; this could not be left as amenace on Wellingtons flank, should he attemptto force the Pyrenean barrier. But the principal ob-stacle to the suggested movement was the presenceof Suchet in the eastern provinces of Spain, dispos-ing of a well-organised and still powerful army. TheMarshal, no doubt, had been held in check by theexpedition which had landed from Sicily and bythe guerrillas in Aragon and Catalonia ; but Murray,the officer who had failed on the Douro, had beenforced to raise the siege of Tarragona, and was un-able to leave the line of the coast; his operations hadbeen of little use to the British arms. At this verytime Suchet might, not improbably, have marchedon Saragossa, nay, have attacked Wellington ; inany case, as long as he remained in the east of Spainhe gravely threatened Wellingtons right flank andrear. This circumstance alone forbade a march acrossthe Pyrenees
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