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Show THE GUDRRILI.A IN HISTORY. Woid First Camo Into Common Use In tho Peninsular War. The word guerrilla Is Spanhh, and first tamo into common uu In this country during tho lime of the I'enlnsultr war lint Spain throughout htr long hhstoiy baa alwau btcit n cognized us the country coun-try most ldeull) suited for gucnlUa t ic-tlcs ic-tlcs There In no region In Kuropo In which It la more difficult to wane u successful suc-cessful wur "If tho urniy uf lm union la small It Is defeated. If It Is Itrge It Mjn" i:en In Ihys tlmo the truth of this was npiric luted b the Itomnns I ho remnants of the CarthagenlaiiM who had takui rifuge there urter tho full of Carthage had delUd the Homan power with rreat pt ralstency. while tho bninUh insunectlon of Qulntus btrtoiliu hud -rlnutdy shaken the siahlllt) of the republic repub-lic Its If Tor eight ears that able (Jtn-eral (Jtn-eral held the fortes at b i His Inwirl able nolle "as to uold a pltehetl hittlo whin con f i on 1 with sunirlor force", an tlto conllp himir to liarflsslns hla opponent unr, Jttfng his lines of coin mil. motions Hertorlous h Ibutennnia wero frequently dtfeutu.1, but their chkf managed man-aged to Inflict nCAere. checks oven upon Mt tulhift nnd Cnaeus Pompiliii, nnd then when the tahlin appeared to bo tumid, the l,uiltnnUui nriny would tdlently melt away and gather uguln In some distant part of tho province Home grew impatient impa-tient ami depressed as the seemingly en I less coldest continued, and as army after aimy was sent to Bpain with uipireutly no detlnlto result t us the ttmt proved, the power of Bertorlus rested upon up-on fand Ihe lAitltunlnn troops whUh at one moment gat hei td In their thousands thous-ands und dwindled away just as spedll), could accomplish nothing permanent, and with the assassination or bertoilus, tho end camo quickly Tor eight tnrs Sptln had threatened to be to Home what many entries afterward Cub i uctually Ucaino to bpoln, et Itomau ptruUUncj triumphed tri-umphed In thu enl It was in Hiwln. too, that tho two sons of l'ompelus the Ureut, Cnaeus and hextus, maintained a stubborn stub-born opposition to the Generals whom Julius Ju-lius sent Into the held against them and eeu after Cnaeus had been slain Hextus t-turned to the scene of his furmer exploits ex-ploits und Indicted far mor danidge than hu ivctiw-d until ho trunsfr rred li I inc. If to Bldlj and pitted himself agilnst Oe-tulan Oe-tulan und Agrlppa l'ortnlghtly itevluw, |