Chapter 208 (2/2)

Seeing the look on the young lieutenant's face, general Clare felt another strange agitation.

There are more than 100 garrisons and hundreds of immigrants who can become soldiers when they pick up guns in such a big okron fortress. They are cheated by a group of aborigines. The most important thing is that the damned Armand did not know his life or death, and the 100 French soldiers he brought out were also missing.

This is a hundred excellent soldiers. It's a shame for the Empire to be so silent about life and death.

With a slap of his right hand on the table, Clare stood up, pointed to the warrant on the table, pointed to Alfonso and scolded: ”tell me about you. As a lieutenant of the Imperial Army and the supreme commander of the temporary garrison of Fort okron, how can you be cheated by such a warrant? What about your vigilance? What about your sense of responsibility? Are they all eaten by those damned wild dogs? ”

No wonder the general, who has been stationed in New Orleans, is angry. With the end of the seven-year war, France lost almost all its colonies in the new world. In order to guarantee the ownership of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, New France in the north of the new world was ceded to the British. The French have worked hard in New France for more than a century, and New France has become Quebec for the British!

All the areas to the east of the river were ceded to the British. Although the British temporarily allowed the French to garrison in New Orleans, New Orleans no longer belonged to France. The Fontainebleau treaty had already given the capital of Louisiana to the Spanish.

As a general who lived in New Orleans for nearly ten years, Claire didn't care about France's loss of the colony of East India. He cared about the colony of the new world.

New France and Louisiana are like two gateways, which stifle the British expansion to the north and West in the new world. If it develops for another period of time, the whole western and northern parts of the new world will be owned by France.

Once it can occupy that large area, France's strength will be side by side with the powerful Spain, and the rising Britain will be strangled.

However, after a war, France, which used to be dominant, was defeated, and all the good situations were reversed overnight.

Almost all the French colonies in the new world were ceded to the British!

How can this not hurt general Claire?

But no matter how heartbreaking it is, Claire knows that she can't turn it all around with her own strength.

Moreover, spring is coming, New Orleans needs to be handed over to the Spaniards, and Louisiana's top military officer needs to return home.

Therefore, before returning home, Claire decided to take a small windsurfing warship to the north along the river and make a final inspection of the area under his jurisdiction.

General Clare's class IV windsurfing warship has not played a significant role in naval warfare, but if the class IV windsurfing warship named after the Duke of schwarzel, the Minister of state, sails in the river, it is a big Mac.

Along the river all the way north, although counter current, but the speed is not slow. This is a serious sailing warship, far from being comparable to the inland river armed transport ship.

At first, Claire was in a better mood because of the scenery along the way, but when the schwarzel was sailing to Memphis to have a rest, she met a transport fleet coming back from the upper reaches of the river.

Although the top commander of the transport fleet composed of four inland river armed transport ships was only a captain, general Claire received the top commander of the transport fleet cordially.

Originally, general Claire wanted to know more about the military fortresses and fortresses in the upper reaches of the river through the captain. As a result, he learned a very bad news from the captain.

”Dear general, the fleet led by Captain Constantine, another transport commander of our Marine Corps, has not been informed since it left New Orleans more than four months ago. Although I am different from his transport route, he should have returned to New Orleans even if he is walking along the Ohio River...”

General Claire, who had excellent military qualities, immediately smelled an unusual crisis from the sudden news. He immediately called all the commanders of the transport fleet stationed in Memphis, and then asked them about captain Constantine. The only news he got was about 50 days ago, Captain Constantine's fleet has been seen stopping outside Fort okron

So general Claire did not plan to go north along the river, but turned from where the Ohio River met the river to the upper reaches of the Ohio River. After arriving at Fort okron, general Claire only inquired about the incident that happened more than 50 days ago. He immediately understood one thing, that is, all the people here were cheated by the aborigines

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