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Marshal Suchet and the Siege of Valencia
By Dominique Contant,
Robert Ouvrard, and Jonathan
Cooper
Final Comments
One may consider, and rightly so, that Marshal Suchet administration's
in Spain was a precursor of the style of colonial administration that
France would employ in North Africa throughout the 19th century. Specifically,
it is interesting to note that the future Marshal Bugeaud will apply
in Algeria the methods that he had learned 20 years earlier under Suchet,
who had held the younger Bugeaud in such high esteem.
One day, O'Meara asked of the exile on Saint Helena, "Who is the
most capable French General?", and Napoleon answered, "That is
difficult to say; but it seems to to me that it is Suchet." (O'Meara,
Napoléon en exil ou l'écho de Sainte-Hélène)
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