3-082-278 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Battles of the British Army, No. X. - Vimiero: arrival in the British Lines of General Kellermann with a flag of truce to propose terms for an honourable French retreat, 1895. '...Junot forestalled his enemies by offering to capitulate. A vain and restless man, he was either too sanguine or too despairing. His defeat had cost him from two to three thousand killed, wounded, and taken, and more than half his artillery; and Lisbon, in his rear, was on the verge of insurrection. After a council of war, he sent General Kellermann with a flag of truce to arrange for the withdrawal of the French from Portugal; and as the result of tedious negotiations, a Convention - known wrongly as the Convention of Cintra - was concluded at Lisbon on the 30th day of August. By the end of September, Portugal was free from the French, who were shipped in British vessels to their own country. Thus one victory had freed Portugal, as one had gained Egypt; and the great Peninsular War opened with a striking success'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.