[The Snare by Rafael Sabatini]@TWC D-Link bookThe Snare CHAPTER VIII 11/20
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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