Deposition of the master of the Brig ‘Snipe’, made before the British Consul in Oporto, 14 Dec 1832.
Maintains that Sir John Campbell having three months before mistaken them for English fighters for Don Pedro, the liberal pretender to the Portuguese crown, violently abused them, the English ministry and King William IV.
From a collection of original papers and correspondence relating to the post-Peninsular War career in Portugal of Maj Gen Sir John Campbell, 1814-1862.
Deals mainly with Campbell’s involvement in the events of the Portuguese Civil War in 1832-1833.
Associated with the Peninsular War (1808-1814) and Portuguese Civil War.