Chapter 598 (1/2)

In fact, when Henry Antoine's fleet was shelled by Norfolk's coast guard guns, their fleet only reached the mouth of the Elizabethan River less than two kilometers away.

Just behind them, at the mouth of the James River, four British flag sailing battleships had just chased from Jamestown.

One of the four windsurfing battleships is a class II battleship, and the other three are class III battleships.

The four windsurfing battleships arrived at Jamestown port three days ago from Kingston, Mecca, the Hague, the Caribbean, for replenishment. They are ready to leave Jamestown tomorrow to support the British army.

Since the signing of the Treaty of Madrid by the British and the Spanish in 1670, the Spanish ceded Jamaica, an important island in the Caribbean Sea, to the British, it has become an important stronghold of the British in the Caribbean Sea.

It was only the earthquake of 1692 that destroyed the port of royal, Jamaica's largest port city at that time. The British began to build Kingston city to replace the port of Royal.

After more than 80 years of development, Kingston has become the largest city in Jamaica. Although it has not replaced Spanish town as the capital of Jamaica, it has become the largest city in Jamaica.

Even the British fleet in the Caribbean moored at this port.

So when Henry Antoine's fleet failed to bombard Jamestown, the four sail battleships came out.

Now the British are not the kind of people who have been beaten up. The important port of Jamestown has been shelled. They have to fight back.

However, when the British warships chased out, Henry Antoine did not find that there were British pursuers behind them. After they turned into the Elizabethan River, the British chased them to the mouth of the Elizabethan river.

And just as the British pursued Henry Antoine's fleet, on the North Bank of the mouth of the James River, near Hampton harbor, a large army guerrilla group of about 300 men also gathered there.

The army guerrillas originally wanted to cooperate with the French warship's shelling to raid Jamestown, but they did not expect that the French shelling did not achieve much effect, so the guerrillas returned to their base in the wilderness.

Yes, at this time, there was still a wilderness near Hampton harbor. There was no big port city in later generations, but just a lot of wilderness.

Naturally, the guerrillas of the Grand Army found the British warships they were pursuing. They wanted to use fireworks to inform the French warships and let them run away quickly, but they didn't expect that the French warships went straight into the Elizabethan River

As a result, when the coastal defense guns deployed on both sides of the Bank of the Elizabethan river began to fire, although they were far away, both the British and the guerrillas of the army saw this horrible large-scale ”fireworks show”.

When the first test shell, which was used to correct the firing coordinates, exploded in the river not far from Henry Antoine's fleet, all the French panicked.

Although they don't understand why the enemy's artillery can hit so far and have such terrible power, they all know that their fleet is suffering from artillery attack at this time!