The now familiar British Commandos were foreseen by Napoleon, according to a passage in the Memoris De Gaulaincourt, his Master of the Horse. He quote a remark of Bonaparte’s made during the retreat from Moscow. Meditating on what the English might do, Napoleon said: “If the idea enters their heads to make raids against my coasts, now at one point, now at another, to reimbark as soon as forces were collected to fight them, and go at once to threaten some other point —the situation would be insupportable.” ; I
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1943, Page 2
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