The Battles of Talavera

The Battles of Talavera
by John Wilson Croker
Map of battle from sixth edition.
Language	English
Publisher	John Murray
Pages	37

The Battles of Talavera is an 1809 poem by the Irish writer John Wilson Croker.^[1] It was written in commemoration of the Battle of Talavera, where Sir Arthur Wellesley led an Allied force of British, Portuguese and Spanish troops to a victory over the French in the Peninsular War. The victory led to popular celebrations in Britain and Wellesley was made Lord Wellington.

As well as his literary interests, Croker was a Tory politician who served for many years of Secretary to the Admiralty. He modelled the work on Walter Scott's 1808 poem Marmion about the Battle of Flodden. It sold very well and went through eight editions by April 1810.^[2] The publisher John Murray said it had achieved more success than any other short poem he knew.^[3] Croker later became a close associate of his fellow Irishman, now Duke of Wellngton, following the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

References

^ Brightfield p.79
^ Muir p.311
^ Bainbridge p.4

Bibliography

Bainbridge, Simon. British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Brightfield, Myron Franklin. John Wilson Croker. University of California Press, 1940
Muir, Rory. Wellington: The Path to Victory, 1769–1814. Yale University Press, 2013.

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