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CHAPTER VI
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From Flanders it is necessary to return to the Peninsula, where we left Peterborough bewailing his enforced inaction. Nothing is more remarkable1 in the story of these Peninsular campaigns than the utter want of unity2 in design between the forces of the Allies in Catalonia and in Portugal. Even in England the British troops in these two quarters were treated, for purposes of administration, as two distinct establishments, which might have been divided by the whole breadth of the Atlantic instead of by twice the breadth of England. Yet the fault could hardly be attributed to any English functionary3, civil or military. Galway was as anxious as Peterborough to advance to Madrid; but the Portuguese4 were terrified at the prospect5 of moving far from their frontier, while the eyes of King Charles ever rested anxiously on the passes by which French reinforcements might advance into Catalonia. In such circumstances it was not easy to accomplish an effective campaign.
Dec. 26,
1705.
Jan. 6,
1706.
The Spaniards of the Austrian party, as has been told, had by the winter of 1705 gained a precarious6 hold on the whole province of Valencia. Just before the close of the year came intelligence that the Spanish General de las Torres had crossed the northern frontier from Arragon into Valencia and had laid siege to San Mateo. The town was important, inasmuch as it commanded the communications between Catalonia and Valencia, but it was held by no stronger garrison7 than thirty of the Royal Dragoons and a thousand Spanish[477] irregular infantry8 under Colonel Jones. This officer defended himself as well as he could, but at once begged urgently for reinforcements. King Charles thereupon appealed for help to Peterborough, who forthwith ordered General Killigrew to march with his garrison from Tortosa and cross the Ebro, while he himself, riding night and day from Barcelona, caught up the column at the close of the first day's march. King Charles had represented the force of Las Torres as but two thousand strong, and had added that thousands of peasants were up in arms against it. Peterborough now discovered that the Spaniards numbered four thousand foot and three thousand horse, while the thousands of armed peasantry were wholly imaginary. His own force consisted of three weak British
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| n.(陆军的)一营(大约有一千兵士)( battalion的名词复数 );协同作战的部队;军队;(组织在一起工作的)队伍 | |
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     secrecy   | |
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| n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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| 寻找,侦察( scout的过去式和过去分词 ); 物色(优秀运动员、演员、音乐家等) | |
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| 不再抵抗(诱惑、疾病、攻击等)( succumb的过去式和过去分词 ); 屈从; 被压垮; 死 | |
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| (使马)飞奔,奔驰( gallop的过去式和过去分词 ); 快速做[说]某事 | |
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     superseded   | |
| [医]被代替的,废弃的 | |
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     lengthy   | |
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| v.突然袭击( pounce的过去式和过去分词 );猛扑;一眼看出;抓住机会(进行抨击) | |
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     backbone   | |
| n.脊骨,脊柱,骨干;刚毅,骨气 | |
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     gallant   | |
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| n.让步,机率,可能性,比率;胜败优劣之别 | |
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     procured   | |
| v.(努力)取得, (设法)获得( procure的过去式和过去分词 );拉皮条 | |
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     allied   | |
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| (军队的)团( regiment的名词复数 ); 大量的人或物 | |
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     perilous   | |
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     sundry   | |
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     simultaneously   | |
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     opportunely   | |
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     dispersed   | |
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     promising   | |
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     defensive   | |
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     variance   | |
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     ascertain   | |
| vt.发现,确定,查明,弄清 | |
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     frightful   | |
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     cavalry   | |
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     onset   | |
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     exertions   | |
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     exponent   | |
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| 和谐地,调和地 | |
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