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Chapter 635 Sparrow Tactics (Recommended, please help)
After the troops sent by the Jamaica Council, or Parliament, were defeated by the Jamaican Abolitionist Organization, the rebels had formed a siege on the capital, Kingston.

Governor Lord Cumberland hurriedly asked for help from mainland Britain.

Considering the huge economic benefits of Jamaica, Pitt the Younger sent out the expeditionary force almost without hesitation.

General Brand jumped onto the dock, turned his head and looked at the soldiers getting off the Little Gray Elephant transport ship, and shouted loudly:
"Hurry up, you bunch of losers! Every minute you waste here is another minute those niggers might destroy another plantation!"

He took the reins from the attendant and said to the staff officer:
"Send out scouts immediately to confirm the location of the black army. Oh, and also, contact Lord Cumberland as soon as possible and ask him to prepare a celebration banquet for the soldiers."

This is not because he is arrogant. The troops he brought this time included the 2nd Regiment of the Grenadiers of the Guards, the King's Foot Infantry Regiment, the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the Carabine Dragoons and other elite troops.

According to the report previously sent back by the Jamaican Committee, there were less than 1 "mulatos" or mixed-race troops on the island, and their military quality was very average.

As for the black troops, there were more than 3 of them, but they were basically plantation slaves who had only recently learned how to shoot.

With his 4 elite troops, it was easy to deal with these rebels.

However, his time was very tight, because after dealing with the blacks in Jamaica, he had to rush to the Bahamas, where the blacks also broke out in rebellion at the end of last year.

Brand jumped on his horse and said to his staff, "Set up camp north of Kingston. Let all officers above the level of battalion commander come to my tent for a meeting."

He waved his whip, thinking about how to quell all the riots in the Caribbean within three months. According to the Prime Minister's promise to him, when he returned to London victoriously, he would be promoted to lieutenant general and nominated as assistant to the Minister of War.

Brand was indeed a capable commander. On the third day after landing, he had basically figured out the rebels' troop deployment and formulated a complete combat plan.

On the morning of the fourth day, Brand's army launched a full-scale attack on the Jamaican abolitionist rebels, with the King's Foot Regiment as the vanguard.

At this time, Major Oriol had just learned that a British army had appeared behind him. There was nothing he could do. The rebels lacked war horses, and the few war horses they had were left behind by the French expeditionary force, so their reconnaissance capabilities were very poor.

He had to abandon the almost conquered city of Kingston and organize troops for defense.

However, his black army could not even fire a volley, so they were no match for the elite British troops.

Only half an hour after the first artillery fire, his staff reported to him in panic that the front line of defense had been defeated.

Oriol's heart sank. It seemed that he was not facing the defenders of the island. Although the army of the Jamaica Committee was slightly more powerful than his own army, it was definitely not as strong as them.

An officer beside him shouted:

"Commander, it should be the British Expeditionary Force that has arrived."

They had already received news from the "Special Trade Association" that London had sent a suppression force, but they did not expect the other party to act so quickly.

Oriol gave decisive orders, ordering the 1st and 2nd Infantry Battalions to hold back the British army, and sent several companies to set fire to the plantations around Kingston to create chaos. The others immediately retreated northwest into the Blue Mountains.

Unfortunately, Brand had anticipated all the possible tactics he might adopt and even set up his camp on the north side of Kingston from the beginning.

This caused heavy losses to the rebels. It was not until the fire in the plantation began to spread widely that Oriol escaped from the gap between two plantations under the leadership of black soldiers who were familiar with the nearby terrain. Afterwards, he was chased by the cavalry. Fortunately, the Blue Mountains were only 10 kilometers away from Kingston. When he fled into the mountains, there were only more than 800 soldiers left with him.

Oriol pulled himself together and contacted the Marens settlement in the mountains.

The so-called Maroons were the indigenous people formed after the blacks who fled into the mountains and lived together with the Indian aborigines on the island. They used the mountains to avoid being hunted by the British colonists, and after hundreds of years of reproduction, they have spread all over Stoney Mountain and the Blue Mountains.

These people were naturally hostile to the British and had already made contact with them at the beginning of the abolitionist uprising in Jamaica.

Soon, a Marens settlement took in the remnants of Oriol and provided them with food and water.

At night, Oriol gathered his officers together, but he showed no sign of defeat. Instead, he stood on a wooden stake and shouted:
"One failure is nothing. The British will leave here in a month at most.

"There are hundreds of thousands of blacks on the plantations waiting for freedom. They are ready to join our army and strike hard at the British again!

"And there will be a steady flow of weapons arriving from Saint-Domingue.

"Everyone should cheer up, victory will belong to us in the end!"

Afterwards, Oriol led his troops to hide in the jungles of the Blue Mountains, surviving on the bananas and mangoes that were scattered all over the ground, and occasionally receiving supplies from the Marens settlement.

So, after the British had been chasing and blocking them for three weeks, they suddenly withdrew from the Blue Mountains as he had said before.

General Brand gloomily instructed Major Ketanhot, an officer of the Jamaica Commission, on how to guard against the rebels, and then led the expeditionary force back on the transport ship and headed for the Bahamas.

Just four days after he defeated Oriol's army, the city of Nassau in the Bahamas was besieged by black rebels.

Under the frantic request for help from the Governor of the Bahamas, Brand had to rush to Nassau to provide reinforcements.

Of course, all of this was a tactic Joseph had planned in advance for the abolition movement in Saint-Domingue.

The smuggling ships of the "Special Trade Association" delivered messages to black rebels throughout the Caribbean, enabling abolitionist rebels in Jamaica, the Bahamas, Dominica, Barbados and other places to form an alliance and help each other.

Wherever the British army landed, the rebels there would stop their movements and launch a fierce attack elsewhere.

When the British army arrived to reinforce, the previously dormant black army resumed its activities and temporarily avoided the areas attacked by the British army.

Since there were far more black slaves than colonists throughout the Caribbean, as long as the leaders were still alive, a large number of troops could be quickly pulled out from the plantations.

Saint-Domingue served as a logistics supply base. The French expeditionary force would be "defeated" repeatedly, leaving weapons and ammunition to Auger, who would then distribute them to the rebels in various places.

As for the transportation, it was naturally handed over to the smuggling ships. They had rich experience in avoiding British patrol fleets, and they were all small boats, so they were rarely caught.

(End of this chapter)