Word: peninsulars
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...Peninsular Campaign was not decisive, but it destroyed several French armies, drained France of much of its trained manpower, softened Napoleon for ultimate defeat in mass land battles (Leipzig and Waterloo) nearer home. It was also no quick war. It took the Duke five years...
...campaign in the Korean peninsula bore striking resemblance to the Duke of Wellington's "Peninsular Campaign" against Napoleon's armies in Spain. The Iron Duke, like Matthew Ridgway, was pitted against enemy armies of overwhelming numerical superiority, capable of getting steady overland reinforcements. Wellington's troops, like the Eighth Army, were supplied by overwhelming seapower. Wrote Wellington, describing his "war of maneuver": "If they advance against me, I shall retire before them, accepting battle if they give me a favorable opportunity, for the missile action of my lines is superior to the shock action of their columns...
...turning back to its past. Last week's action of the Juneau was reminiscent of the time C. S. Forester's hero, Captain Horatio Hornblower, commanding H.M.S. Sutherland, shelled a mule train on a coastal road between Malgret and Aren de Mar during Wellington's Peninsular campaign...
...That much any good student of the war knows. What Williams has uncovered in proving his thesis will send many a chagrined professional historian back to the library stacks. No one comes off worse than Major General George B. McClellan, whose reputation, even for his conduct of the disastrous Peninsular Campaign of 1862, had improved under the ministrations of recent historians. Williams makes it hard to believe that "Little Mac" was anything but a stuffed tunic, an ambitious parade-ground dandy whose timidity in combat was close kin to cowardice. In battle, Confederate generals relied on McClellan's fears...
England, which had trouble in Spain during the Peninsular Wars and never seems to have forgotten it, has been strongly suggesting the country as a made-to-order bridgehead and military base on the continent, "secure behind the Pyreness." Many military men disagree. Air and naval installations on the Iberian Peninsula would be under constant short-range bombing attack and exceptionally tough to supply; the Pyrenees are a poor barrier against airborne invasion, and nowhere near as impregnable as the Spanish like to think. Spain is fundamentally an unattractive place from which to flight a European war. There...