Chapter 597 (1/2)

Henry Antoine was a brigadier general of the French fleet in Guadeloupe, but he was not the top commander of the fleet.

At the end of the seven-year war, France was defeated. In order to keep the sugarcane plantations and sugar factories in Guadeloupe, the French king reluctantly ceded French Louisiana and New France in the new world of North America.

In fact, even if Louis XV did not cede French Louisiana and New France, the British had long coveted these two vast colonies. The French were defeated in the seven-year war. It would be foolish for the British not to want these two places.

So, on the surface, it seems that the French ceded French Louisiana and New France in order to save Guadeloupe island. In fact, everyone knows that Guadeloupe island is the last pair of trousers for the French.

But Guadeloupe is finally saved. At least the sugar that the French nobles eat every day is guaranteed, isn't it?

After seven years of war, the French are much more honest. For the time being, they were unable to confront the more powerful British, so they had to send a fleet of three second class windsurfing battleships, seven third class windsurfing battleships and a number of fourth class windsurfing fast ships to Guadeloupe.

The sugarcane plantations and sugar factories in Guadeloupe are something the French must not give up.

However, as the Americans began to struggle in the British colonies, the French found opportunities.

The French know very well that the seven-year war has made a lot of trouble for them, and the British also feel bad. Otherwise, the British would not increase their oppression on the thirteen British colonies and eventually lead to the outbreak of the war of independence.

Although they had just defeated the seven-year war for only 14 years, the French could not sit still when they saw the time coming.

It's just that they can't stand on the side of the U.S. Army now, but it's OK to help the U.S. Army quietly.

As a result, Henry Antoine was given such a task, that is, to lead a sub fleet composed of a class II windsurfing battleship and two class III windsurfing battleships to go northward from Guadeloupe island without flying the national flag, to bombard the British port cities as pirates at the right time, so as to restrain the British.

So Henry Antoine came to the east coast of the new world.

The flotilla had been cruising the upper Atlantic Ocean for more than three months, during which they had docked in the army controlled Philadelphia for some time, but as the British went south to attack New York, Brigadier General Henry Antoine led the flotilla out of Philadelphia.

At the same time, according to the agreement with the army, they went south to prepare to bombard Yorktown, Jamestown and other port cities controlled by the British, so as to contain the attention of the British.

After leaving the port of Philadelphia, the sub fleet went down the south of Delaware and down the east coast of demava Peninsula to Chesapeake Bay, and then began shelling Yorktown and Jamestown.

But the effect of the bombardment disappointed Brigadier General Henry Antoine. The British built defensive positions in these two port cities that they could not break through with just three windsurfing battleships.

And Brigadier General Henry Antoine didn't want to risk losing his warship to attack the two ports. His purpose was to contain them.

However, two successive shellings did not achieve good results, which made Brigadier General Henry Antoine very unhappy.

Windsurfing battleship is a weapon used for attack. If the attack has no effect, it will certainly upset the commander.

I came here from a long distance, but I didn't even kill a dog after several rounds of gunfire. Everyone would be upset if it was someone else.

Especially when the shelling of Jamestown was fruitless, Henry Antoine heard from his first mate that just a little inside the mouth of the Elizabethan River, there was a large tribe of Cherokees, and this large tribe was on the Bank of the river.

The news has interested Antoine in the future.