A narrative of the campaign of the British army in Spain, commanded by His Excellency Sir John Moore ... Authenticated by official papers and original letters / By James Moore.
- James Moore
- Date:
- 1809
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A narrative of the campaign of the British army in Spain, commanded by His Excellency Sir John Moore ... Authenticated by official papers and original letters / By James Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![2) their minds. By cold languor, and fo vey dul- ness, they ‘were and damped the spirits of the Nation. -' The love of independence and hatred of a pin so instantaneov uly excite all the energies of Britons, that they can hardly credit the sluggish indifference that pervaded the Spanish nation, when menaced by the rapid approach of the victorious armies of Buonaparte. _ Judging what he could do, by what Spa- niards were capable of, they thought it almost impossible for his army to traverse the Pyren- nees in winter. But should the French have the temerity to effect such a passage, it was believed they would soon be famished. ‘These notious were applicable to the resources for- merly possessed by France. But the magni- tude of the military preparations of their pre- sent enemy, and the celerity of his movements, confounded all such calculations. Lord William Bentinck saw clearly the er- ‘ror committed by the Spaniards. In a dis- patch about the beginning of October he ob- serves, with a melancholy presage, ‘‘] am “every moment more and more convinced, «¢ that a blind confidence in their own strength, ‘and natural slowness, are the rocks upon_](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33486992_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
