Chapter 228

After the Le Francois tragedy, Nelson, who felt very important, immediately enlisted fishing boats to report all the details of the Halloween operation to Sir Parker's desk.

The old jazz saw the opportunity.

With the survivors of Le Francois in hand, especially the mayor holding rare goods, Great Britain does not need to worry about becoming the party responsible for the tragedy.

On the contrary, when the initiative to refute the rumor lies with him, it means that he has enough capital to let Fort France dance with his baton.

He immediately adjusted the war plan for the battle of the Windward Islands. Based on the Halloween operation, a new Christmas operation came into being.

Christmas, the Lord's birthday, resurrection after death, light for all ages

In the first step, sir Parker connived at the rumors about the British people, fanned the flames, constantly aggravated the details of Le Francois tragedy night, and completely guided the whole wind direction to the argument that [Britain presided over everything].

In the second step, after learning that the Halloween fleet with heavy burdens had left Grenada, he concocted a false information about Nelson's entry into St. George's port and sent it to Fort France through a Spanish businessman.

The third step is the secret split of the British main fleet.

Four frigates, led by a destroyer, formed a formation to confuse the enemy and remained off Grenada. The number was reduced to 17, but the strength was basically intact, and the combat formation was free.

Under the leadership of jazz, they dived out of the windward island chain at night and swam in the sea between Grenada and Barbados, waiting for the further fermentation of the event.

On June 8, after the declaration that the noble blood of France cannot flow in vain, the French plan finally lost its cover in the eyes of jazz.

At Mount Perry and port St. George, sir drew two red circles on his chart. After thinking about it, he drew a blue circle on the correspondence address he left to the French in the Sea west of Grenada.

The Halloween fleet is the target of the French, and the slave army fleeing into the mountains is a fog. The joint fleet will be divided into two, one going north and one going south.

The Jazz had no way to guess how they would split up.

However, the Halloween fleet has a bad name, and a class IV cruiser equipped with heavy guns is in hand. For the sake of safety, the French must deal with it as a battle line.

So the French line of battle will go south to Grenada. As for whether the whole battle line went south or divided into two, it didn't matter to the jazz.

The purpose of this scam is to split the joint fleet, weaken their strength, and enable the jazz to open the battlefield in the selected waters and have an absolute advantage in the battlefield.

This battlefield

The Jazz drew a heavy circle off the northern coast of Martinique.

There is a maxim of war in the East, which Jazz once saw in a travel book.

Don't let anyone guess what you think, push your rule where the other party thinks it has control.

There is a similar saying in the west, which is called hiding a leaf. The forest is the safest place.

Martinique is an overseas province of the kingdom of France. Compared with other colonies in the Caribbean, they have absolute dominance here.

However, due to the activity of the Halloween fleet, there is a temporary gap in this ruling power.

Northeast of Martinique, the collapse of the Atlantic defense fleet made the military lose its minions, and the northern flight of the slave army affected the fishermen in the northern ports. The sea area there is now almost a vacuum, but in the eyes of the French, it is still their back garden, and indeed their back garden.

The joint fleet going north will undoubtedly choose this route, because in their hearts, this route is comfortable and comfortable, and they don't even need to arrange scouts to guard the journey of the army.

God given opportunity!

The Parker fleet moved earlier than the Frances.

They went north from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, then cut out the middle ridge route, launched the formation before the joint fleet passed in the late night of June 11, and stuck the throat of the route.

Seven hours later, the French revenge fleet, led by the fury, seized Grenada.

Twenty nine hours later, Sir Alex received his award as the main force of the unprotected joint fleet with a total of 20 ships, led by the shining ship.

At 11:38 noon on June 13, 1779, the location was the north coast of Martinique. The maritime decisive battle of the battle of the Windward Islands between Britain and France officially opened.

The British side has the upper hand in T, and dispatched 17 warships, including the second-class ship Duke of Wales, the third-class ship endeavour, the son of Poseidon and four fourth-class ships, with a total of 470 combat firepower, the flagship HMS Duke of Wales, the General Commander of the Royal Navy and Sir Peter Parker, the new continent fleet commander.

The French Dutch joint fleet rushed to the battle, with a total of 20 warships, including the third-class ship Korn ferry, St. van nitru and four fourth-class ships. The battle line has a total of 370 firepower, the flagship Korn ferry. The General Commander is lieutenant general and Viscount Ross Belfort, deputy commander of the new continental fleet.

The British had an absolute advantage in the decisive battle from the beginning. Small ships surrounded and impacted on the periphery, and the battle line in the middle remained motionless.

The French were tired of coping. Just two hours after the war, a class IV ship was destroyed and forced to withdraw from the battle line.

In another hour or so, the stern of the Dutch flagship St. van nitru was broken. The gunpowder explosion destroyed half of the deck, the mast fell, and all the rudders and sails were out of control, completely losing the ability to continue the war.

Her disengagement declared the defeat of the United Fleet.

At 3:22 p.m., viscount Belfort ordered the escort formation to attack the retreat, followed by two lightly wounded class IV ships, and the fleet slowly withdrew from the battlefield.

Sir Parker soon dispersed the battle line and ordered the whole army to sweep away the remaining enemies, which led to the end of the war.

By 7:45 p.m., with the disengagement of two Briggs 82 kilometers east of the main battlefield, the decisive battle of Xiangfeng islands was over.

In this battle, the British side sank one ship, seriously injured four ships, sank five enemy warships at all levels and captured six.

Among the captured ships were the Dutch class III ship St. van niederu and three French class IV ships. The St. van niederu sank in the process of dragging back to Kingston because of the damage.

British victory!

The battle of the Windward Islands ended with Britain's only victory. The Halloween fleet led by Nelson destroyed the French Atlantic Defense Fleet, and the main fleet led by Sir Parker defeated the joint fleet.

This means that the new maritime order pursued by Sir Parker has been established.

In the vast Caribbean Sea and the wider Atlantic coast of North America, Great Britain has a dominant maritime power, especially the combat firepower above level 4, accounting for almost half of the total maritime power of all countries.

France continued to occupy the second place, but lost four class IV ships and a large number of small ships. In terms of absolute strength, the French are no longer stronger than the Spaniards behind them.

The Spaniards who are no longer great, no longer glorious and no longer aggressive are still firmly among the top three. Their strength is concentrated in the Caribbean and almost disappeared along the Atlantic coast of North America.

Later

Portugal, Russia, Denmark and, of course, the new United States

They more or less embody a sense of existence in the rich new world, which neither makes people forget them nor makes people specially remember them.

The glorious Dutchman, who was fully prepared to restart in the new world, suffered a disastrous defeat. His flagship of the new world became a corpse at the bottom of the sea, and sank into the bottom of the sea with his unrealistic ambitions and dreams.

On June 24, the Martinique garrison confirmed that its militia killed the mob leader who came to rob during a baggage transportation. The Indian slave La chamon and Fort France announced that the war of revenge was a complete victory.

On June 25, the French colonial authorities sent a note to Kingston, hoping to end the protracted maritime dispute between the two countries, be independent of the situation in North America and reshape peace and tranquility in the Caribbean Sea.

The British colonial authorities strongly agreed with this. As a matter of good faith, they took the initiative to release count gervordang, the captured Defense Fleet commander, and offered to take the initiative to return Le Francois refugees rescued in the course of the war, including the distinguished mayor of Le Francois, sir allAnd.

The world was in an uproar.