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The Snare

CHAPTER VIII
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There is no such thing as a line of fortifications impassable to the French." "You will pardon me, Major, but it is yourself have no right to your own assumptions.

Again you overlook something.

I will grant that technically what you say is true.

No fortifications can be built that cannot be destroyed--given adequate power, with which it is yet to prove that Massena not knowing what may await him, will be equipped.
"But let us for a moment take so much for granted, and now consider this: fortifications are unquestionably building in the region of Torres Vedras, and Wellington guards the secret so jealously that not even the British--either here or in England--are aware of their nature.

That is why the Cabinet in London takes for granted an embarkation in September.
Wellington has not even taken his Government into his confidence.


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