The British Back Liberation of Spain

francisco de miranda was working on a new plan for the liberation of spanish america. The british government were open to talking with him about his plans after he returned home from an unsuccessful expedition in trinidad. He and arthur wellesley, the future duke of wellington worked up a plan to send a ten thousand man expeditionary force to venezuela. After bayon's abdications they decided that the war against napoleon had to be fought in iberia - not far away Venezuela.