16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
but finding it in himself put him somewhat out
of countenance.
Once more he went over the various moves,
the replacing of stated regiments by others,
the convocation of wholly committed supporters,
the summoning of a council, the issue of
a proclamation, the rapid dispatch of guns to
command three essential bridges: as he
named them in order they seemed simple
enough, and his heart beat so that he could
hear it. Yet he had some acquaintance with
the military mind, the Spanish military mind,
and with that of the Spanish conspirator; and
before now he had seen a series of actions
that were simple in themselves, but that had of
necessity to be carried out in sequence, fall
into hopeless chaos for want of a sense of
time, for want of common efficiency, or because
of hidden jealousies.
He wished he had not used such confident,