We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up.

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The strength of a nation is measured by the strength of its border guards. This is the reason why little countries survived against the might of the great empires. They had power in numbers and were always able to outnumber their enemy. The Bavarians, for instance, had more than twice the population of the French, yet Napoleon's armies never defeated them.

The real reason why they didn't was because Napoleon wasn't able to capture every tiny village they held onto. They kept coming back with fresh troops and new weapons to keep fighting until they destroyed their enemy.

Source: The Horse And His Boy

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