Wellington, soldier and statesman, and the revival of the military power of England . was re-quired to restore discipline ; the army was hardlyable to move. Besides, he could not, at this junc-ture, have loosed his hold on Spain and begun whatwould have been a premature invasion of fortress of San Sebastian on the coast, where thefrontiers of France and Spain approach each otherfrom the west, was still held by a French garrison;it was absolutely necessary to reduce this before theBidassoa, the river on the border, could be fortress, too, of Pampeluna, in Navarre, was stil
Wellington, soldier and statesman, and the revival of the military power of England . was re-quired to restore discipline ; the army was hardlyable to move. Besides, he could not, at this junc-ture, have loosed his hold on Spain and begun whatwould have been a premature invasion of fortress of San Sebastian on the coast, where thefrontiers of France and Spain approach each otherfrom the west, was still held by a French garrison;it was absolutely necessary to reduce this before theBidassoa, the river on the border, could be fortress, too, of Pampeluna, in Navarre, was stillin the hands of the enemy; it was connected with 1 Selection, p. 706 : I am quite convinced that we have nowout of our ranks double the amount of our loss in battle, and that wehave lost more men in the pursuit than the enemy have. . Thisis the consequence of the state of discipline of the British doubtless was too severe; but a British army has perhapsalways shown a tendency to get out of hand, whether in victory orin defeat. J .v <Z I «< \ Cl, C/J £. ,/
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