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 Also, the uncertainties which had been conceived, not with regard to the result of the struggle, but as to its length, and the dangerous turns of fortune which it might present, were entirely set at rest; and seeing the precision and connection of the movements of the army of occupation, the moment of definitive success was generally regarded as very near—a matter, at most, of one or two days.