Fremont-Barnes, in The Napoleonic Wars: The Peninsular War 1807–1814, writes that the then British Foreign Secretary Canning: " ... privately condemned Moore's failed campaign in increasingly stronger terms," while in public he " ... in the great British tradition of characterizing defeat as victory, insisted that although Moore's army had been pushed out of Spain his triumph at the battle of Corunna had left 'fresh laurels blooming upon our brows'".
Fremont-Barnes en The Napoleonic Wars: The Peninsular War 1807–1814 indicou que o entón secretario de asuntos exteriores británico George Canning "condenou en privado a fracasada campaña de Moore en termos cada vez máis fortes", mentres que en público "segundo a gran tradición británica de caracterizar as derrotas como vitorias, insistiu que aínda que o exército de Moore fora expulsado de España o seu triunfo na batalla da Coruña deixara loureiros frescos florecendo sobre as nosas frontes".