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“They’ve surrendered.” Kennedy brought the news. “St Peters is ours, and without a shot being fired.”
“That’s the sort of victory I like,” Dickert said. “One with no casualties. What happened?”
“The inhabitants mutinied,” Kennedy said. “They told La Touché they’d rather surrender to General Monckton than have British troops ravaging and pillaging the town.” He pushed tobacco into the bowl of his pipe. “I hear that St Peter is stuffed full of goods the privateers captured from British merchantmen.”
Dickert grunted. “The planters were quite in favour of ravaging and pillage when they benefitted, but opposed when we would be the ravagers.” He spat on the ground. “That’s for the fine susceptibilities of French civilisation.”
How can I rescue Benjamin now?
Remembering the treatment of
