An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794: Under the Command of their Excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K.B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. — John Shaqi
An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794: Under the Command of their Excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K.B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B.Willyams, Cooper
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An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794: Under the Command of their Excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K.B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B.
Willyams, Cooper
English West Indian Expedition, 1793-1794; West Indies, British--History; West Indies, French -- History
XI. The property of owners and captains of ships shall be secured
to them on board and on shore.--ANSWER. Granted, as to their
property in Fort Bourbon.
XII. The inhabitants of St. Pierre, embarked on English ships,
shall be set at liberty, and their property, under seal, secured to
them.--ANSWER. This article cannot come within the present
capitulation. The claimants may apply to the commanders of the
fleet and army.
XIII. The ordonateur and officers of administration shall have
permission and time to regulate their accounts, and to take with
them the papers relative to that end.--ANSWER. Granted.
XIV. There shall be an entire and absolute oblivion of the past,
and an end to all animosities.--ANSWER. Granted, according to the
proclamations.
XV. The rights of free citizens inrolled in the national guard
shall be preserved.--ANSWER. Refused.
XVI. The liberty of individuals composing the companies of
l'Enclume, d'Octavius, de la Croire, and de Pontouur, shall be
confirmed.--ANSWER. Refused. The slaves must be restored to their
owners.
XVII. A period shall be fixed for the taking possession of the
fort, and the necessary time allowed for the garrison to take out
their effects.--ANSWER. The two gates of Fort Bourbon to be
delivered up to the troops of his Britannic Majesty immediately
after the exchange of the present articles. The garrison will march
out at the great gate, and be conducted to the place appointed for
each corps, by the commissioners who have managed the present
capitulation, and will lay down their arms at the place of their
embarkation. Three days will be allowed for the evacuation of the
fort, and the commissaries of artillery and stores will remain in
the forts to take inventories of all the magazines.
XVIII. The greatest attention shall be paid to the sick and
wounded; and they shall be furnished with ships to carry them to
France as they recover.--ANSWER. Granted; but at the expence of the
French government, and to be attended by their own surgeons; if not
sufficient for the purpose, surgeons shall be furnished.
XIX. General Rochambeau, immediately upon the surrender of the
fort, shall be at liberty to take his measures for his return to
France. A frigate to be furnished him, his aides de camp,
secretaries, and suite.--ANSWER. A commodious vessel shall be
allowed to General Rochambeau, with the necessary passports for his
safe return to France.
XX. The effects, trunks, chests, private papers, and all that
General Rochambeau shall declare to belong to himself and suite,
shall be put under the protection of an English guard, when the
troops of that nation shall have taken possession of Fort
Convention, and shall be embarked with him.--ANSWER. Granted.
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