Chapter 654: The Guide of Freedom (asking for monthly votes)
Chapter 655 The Guide of Freedom (please vote for me)
In the end, Brand compromised.
After all, the niggas in the Bahamas are just clamoring for independence, and they actually create a government structure and control the administration and economy of the entire island. The degree of harm is completely different.
By then, he will have to take full responsibility as the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force.
As for the reinforcements, the news he received last week is that preparations have not yet been completed, and it will take 4 months at the earliest before 5,000 soldiers arrive in the Caribbean.
Before that, he needed someone to help him stabilize the situation in the Bahamas. At least the rebel government could not easily confiscate the island's plantations and drive out the British.
And the "commission" to the French was naturally paid by the Governor of the Bahamas - Lord Essex took a lot of money with him when he fled Nassau.
That afternoon, Brissot took the British transport ship "Smile" loaded with supplies and returned to Saint-Domingue.
The ship was called upon by him in the following months. This was one of the conditions for helping the British suppress the Bahamas uprising.
As for France's own transport ship, it was "hijacked" by the Saint-Domingue rebels three months ago.
Brissot first docked at the French-controlled island of St. Lucia, replaced French crew members, and then continued northwestward.
After the "Smile" left the Lesser Andres Islands, the crew brought a black man from the French "coolie" who had previously boarded the ship to the officers' conference room.
Brissot stood up and bowed to the man in ragged clothes but with sharp eyes, and said in English:
"Nice to see you here, Mr. Jones!"
Jones was the leader of the abolitionist movement in the Bahamas. After his rebel army was defeated, he was taken to the island of Santa Lucia by a ship of the "Special Trade Association".
He raised his hand and touched his chest in return:
"They said you were M. Auger's man?"
"So be it."
Jones nodded: "If you can give me a pistol and send me back to Bridgeton, I will be very grateful to you."
"What are you going to do?"
"David is dead, Jerrys is dead, old Jon is dead, everyone is dead." Jones stared at Brisseau tightly and said in a hoarse voice, "I have to avenge them. As long as I have a gun, I can You can also kill a lot of British people, and then go to meet them 'there'."
Brissot nodded silently: "Although you have encountered some setbacks, the cause of freedom and liberation has not failed."
Jones shouted: "Liberty forever!"
"I'll send you back to Bridgeton, but not to assassinate British soldiers."
"Then what else can I do? Kneel down to the white man and beg for forgiveness?"
"No, there are still hundreds of thousands of enslaved people waiting for you to rescue." Brisso said, "Your cause of freedom will continue."
Jones smiled miserably: "The brothers who followed me are all dead, and no one can save me now..."
"What if I could provide you with a thousand flintlock muskets and £50,000?"
Jones's eyes lit up: "You? You're not joking, are you?"
"Of course not." Brissot patted him on the shoulder. "The weapons will be delivered by ship in three days, and the money is in the cabin below. The cause of freedom will never end!" Just like that, Brand just paid Half of the 100,000 pounds was transferred to the Abolitionist Rebel Army to support the struggle against the British.
A few days later, Brissot stood on the bow of the ship and looked at Jones's back in the distance, feeling a surge of emotion.
That is the fire of freedom! It is not extinguished yet. It will continue to burn with that man throughout Barbados, and one day liberate the people who are enslaved and tortured there!
He turned to look at the boundless sea.
On the other side of the Caribbean, black people in the Bahamas and Jamaica are also resisting their tragic fate, using their blood and hands to bury the dirty slavery system.
Then, Saint-Domingue will lead the entire Caribbean region to establish a country of freedom, no oppression, and no slave trade.
Whether they are black, white, or Mulatto, they can live there equally and show the same bright smile.
The long night of sin ends here! The light of freedom and happiness will always shine on the boundless Caribbean Sea!
Brissot suddenly crossed himself on his chest, raised his head and said loudly:
"Long live His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! It is you who have brought hope to this land! May God bless you."
He was a fanatical abolitionist who came to America on a slave ship, and then witnessed with his own eyes the miserable life of black slaves.
Those West African tribesmen were raided, captured, and transported to the Americas by slave caravans. Nearly a quarter of the people will die along the way.
What awaits them is to work non-stop in Liege, driven by the manor owner's whip. If you are not careful, you will be tortured by being burned, hung upside down, or even directly executed.
Female black slaves would be humiliated by plantation owners at any time and at any time.
Slave owners would also pen them together like animals and select strong black men for unified "breeding". The black children born to them would be the private property of the slave owners and continue their lives as slaves and "livestock". .
The fate of the black slaves kept reincarnating like this, like falling into hell, with no hope.
Until, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent him here.
Countless innocent black people have since escaped the whips of plantation owners, become human beings again, and are bathed in the holy light of God again!
Brissot's eyes were a little red.
He swore in his heart that he would always follow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, follow the guide of freedom, and give him everything he had!
Half a month later, a French anti-rebellion army of 4,000 people landed in the Bahamas.
The Bahamas Provisional Parliament suddenly became nervous and immediately authorized Major Toussaint Louverture and Liddington to summon troops to resist.
Of course, several absolute high-ranking officials in the parliament and the two commanders of the rebels had already met with Oger's envoys and knew that this French army was not an enemy.
The two sides even had to cooperate.
French commander Lieutenant Colonel Galissonnier pointed to the city of Nassau in the distance and smiled at Major Gardner, a British military adviser beside him:
"These blacks have no military common sense. You see, it took me less than two days to complete the siege of this city."
"I wish you victory as soon as possible." Gardner said.
His so-called consultant was actually here to be a "military supervisor" to prevent the French from taking money without working.
At noon the next day, the French army launched a fierce attack on Nassau.
For a while, the sound of artillery was deafening. The buildings outside Nassau were quickly torn apart by artillery shells. Then, the French infantry line advanced neatly towards the city under the urging of the military drums.
Just as Gardner was amazed at the French army's strong fighting power and the black slaves were unable to fight back, the sound of trumpets suddenly sounded from the sides and rear of the two wings of the French army.
