In 1808 Sir Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington)
inflicted a major defeat on Napoleon's forces at the battle of
Vimiero, but promptly signed an armistice and convention
(negotiated by Sir Hew Dalrymple with General Junot). The
Convention permitted the evacuation of the latter's defeated army
from Portugal to Bayonne - along with its equipment and its
plunder. This disgraceful Convention was regarded by the people of
Britain - government ministers excepted - as a betrayal of
Britain's allies, Portugal and Spain. Some of the troops
repatriated under this agreement fought against Sir John Moore's
expeditionary force the following year, forcing his evacuation from
northern Spain. Wordsworth's enormous pamphlet on the betrayal of
the Iberian patriots by Britain's officer class is one of the most
remarkable political documents produced by a Romantic poet. Here
the text of W J B Owen's 1968 edition is republished for the
bicentennial, with a critical symposium by Richard Gravil, Simon
Bainbridge, David Bromwich, Timothy Michael and Patrick Vincent.
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