Al exc[elentisi]mo señor D. Francisco Xavier Castaños, capitan general de exercito y general en gefe del de Andalucia. La Victoria de Baylen
By: oda impresa de orden de la Junta suprema
Publisher: Sevilla: y por su original en Mexico en la Oficina de Arizpe.
Published: 1808
Place of publication: [Mexico]
Language: spa
Subjects: Campaigns; Peninsular War, 1807-1814; Military History; History; Poetry; Spanish Epic poetry
Other titles: Al excelentisimo señor D. Francisco Xavier Castaños, capitan general de exercito y general en gefe del de Andalucia. La Victoria de Baylen.; Victoria de Baylen.; Victoria de Bailén.
Notes: Signed on p. [8]:  El Cantor de Anfriso.

First printed in Seville  in the same year.

The Battle of Bailén took place on July 19, 1808. Under the command of Francisco Javier Castaños, the Spanish army scored a crucial victory agains the French forces, commanded by Pierre Dupont de L'Etang; after the French forces surrendered, the entirety of the soldiers went into Spanish captivity, and it was a morale booster for the Spanish forces in the war.

Signatures: [1]⁴ ([1]₄ verso blank)

Medina, J.T. Imprenta en México (1539-1821), 10032.

Garritz, A. Impresos novohispanos, 1808-1821, I: no. 33.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wormed thoughout with some small loss of text.

John Carter Brown Library copy disbound.

John Carter Brown Library copy has ms. "72" in upper right hand corner of title page.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.