Show S THE HE GUERRILLA IN HISTORY Word First Fist Came Into Common Use UseS Usein s sin S in the Peninsular War I The word guerrilla guerria Is Spanish and first came Into common use in this country during the tine time tIe of the Peninsular war war But Spain throughout her long history has ha always been recognized as a the country country country coun coun- try most moat mo Ideally suited suied for guerrilla tac tac- t tics o. o There Tere is no region regon in Europe Europ li in 11 which It i is more difficult to wage wae a successful suc successful war If I the army of is in aslop small smal It is defeated if I it Is large it I starves stares Even Een in LIvy's Llvy's time the truth of this was appreciated by the Romans Romas The he remnants of the ho who fall of had taken refuge there after the fal Carthage had defied the Roman power with wih great persistency while the Spanish I Insurrection of Quintus had se seriously seriously se- se shaken the stability t of t the republic l tt lie lic itself i Ilha For eight years that t able l General General Gen Gen- eral held the forces at ba bay Ills His ls Invariable Invariable able policy was to avoid a 8 pitched battle batte when confronted with superior u forces rc an cg confine himself W t to harassing e sl his S Sop op opponent and cutting his lines of ot communications Lieutenants I were frequent frequently defeated but their chief r aged to Inflict severe checks even upon Metullus I and Pompeius and then I when the e tables sa appeared p gl to be turned the he Lusitanian army would silently melt away and gather again In some distant S Part of the province aan Rome grew impatient impatient tient and depressed as the seemingly endless endless endless end end- less tent contest continued and as a. a army after army m was sent to Spain Spain w with t apparently a Z esi si uW at no definite e result Yet Yet as the event proved the power of rested upon upon upon up up- on sand The Lusitanian troops which at at- atone one moment gathered In their thousands thousands ands and dwindled away just as could accomplish nothing permanent and with the assassination of the end wih came quickly For eight years year Spain had threatened to be to Rome what hat many afterward Cuba actually bec became me meto to Spain yet Roman persistency triumphed triumphed tri tri- in the end It I was In SpaIn too that the two sons of Pompeius the Great te and Sextus maintained a 8 stubborn stubborn stub stub- born bonn opposition to the Generals whom Ju Julius Julius Ju- Ju lius Ilus sent into the field feld against them and even after had been slain Sextus to the scene of his former exploits ex ex- ex- ex pIous and inflicted far mor damage t than an he received until unU he transferred himself to Sicily receive and pitted himself himsel against Octavian Octavian Oc- Oc tavlan and Agrippa Fortnightly Review |