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General Dumouriez, then a captain of infantry, made the tour of Spain and Portugal, by order of the Duke de Choiseul, Minister of foreign affairs in the reign of Louis XV. ;and it was to that nobleman he transmitted his observations on the mode of attacking and defending Portugal, whose topography does not appear to have been better known to its neighbours the Spaniards, than to the rest of Europe. The Duke de Choiseul having been exiled in 1770, was succeeded by the Duke d Aiguillon. After the dismission of the Duke d Aiguillon in 1774 (who was the personal enemy of our A uthor, as well as that of every one who had obtained the confidence of the Duke de Choiseul) Dumouriez then added to his military observations, the various remarks he had made on the government, politics, finance, commerce, manners, colonies, c.
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