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Only one of these sides would win the Peninsular War, and it certainly wasn't the French

Only one of these sides would win the Peninsular War, and it certainly wasn't the French

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It is well known that Napoleon Bonaparte loved his men in the Imperial Guard (going as far as to call them his children), and it is not as well known but fairly well known that Arthur Wellesley, famously known as Lord Wellington, [referred to the British army under his command in Spain and Portugal as the Scum of the Earth](https://books.google.ca/books?id=7fYpAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA279&lpg=PA279&dq=I+beg+leave+to+call+your+attention+to+a+practice+which+appears,+from+your+confidential+report,+to+prevail+in+the+%E2%80%94th+regiment,+of+postponing+the+execution+of+the+sentence+of+a+Regimental+Court+Martial&source=bl&ots=FcBVt8IShs&sig=EEC3qf5CzhizOmxjNR7ydpTmKgM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wL5mUYWNFfLH4AO4mYG4Ag&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=I%2520beg%2520leave%2520to%2520call%2520your%2520attention%2520to%2520a%2520practice%2520which%2520appears%252C%2520from%2520your%2520confidential%2520report%252C%2520to%2520prevail%2520in%2520the%2520%E2%80%94th%2520regiment%252C%2520of%2520postponing%2520the%2520execution%2520of%2520the%2520sentence%2520of%2520a%2520Regimental%2520Court%2520Martial&f=false), since while the French had conscription, the British did not, meaning only the truly desperate and ill-disciplined would join the British ranks. Ironically however, it is these scum of the earth who would liberate Spain and Portugal, alongside Spanish and Portuguese forces, who would kick the French occupiers out of the Iberian Peninsula. Furthermore, it is these men who would hold the line at Waterloo against the Grande Arme and Napoleons Imperial Guard.

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