Ferrante Duway was a clever man. The moment the British envoy finished conveying the British government's intentions, he readily agreed.
If he had not feared being detained as a hostage, Ferrante Duway would have dearly loved to take the Spanish government and flee straight to Portugal himself.
Charles Duchatelet looked at the officials of the Spanish Republic as they planned to continue moving north, and he felt as if a lifetime had passed.
A few months earlier, Charles Duchatelet had personally planned the Toledo uprising, propped Ferrante Duway up into power, and overthrown the rule of the Bourbon family.
The second republic in Europe was founded, the Spanish people celebrated beneath the whole sky, and the French Second Republic was no longer alone.
Yet only a few months later, how had these people become rats crossing the street? Not only had they been beaten back step by step by the evil Austrian Empire, they had even been spat upon by their own people.
It seemed the Spaniards were still far too barbaric. They could not understand the lofty mission before them, and the forces of evil were also far too powerful.
Charles Duchatelet had long advised Ferrante Duway to imitate the French Revolution and eliminate all old nobles and clergy who were disloyal to the new government.
Such an approach might have been barely acceptable to some radical Frenchmen and worshippers of Napoleon, but in Spain it seemed far too heaven-defying.
Ferrante Duway's government contained large numbers of old nobles and clergy. Although every one of these people had a foot in two boats, without them this so-called Spanish government would collapse at once.
What Charles Duchatelet found even harder to understand was that the French Army had actually been kept bottled up east of the Pyrenees by the Austrians