June 1761
With her flag of truce limp under the brassy sun, HMS Temple sat off Fort St Pierre, Martinico. As the heat bubbled the pitch between the pristine planking, Temple’s crew stood on deck, studying the fort with its batteries of cannon and white-uniformed garrison. It was seldom that a British ship came so close to a French stronghold without firing, and the officers and men of Temple resolved to record every last detail of the enemy fort.
Temple Temple’s Temple It was June 1761, and the war between His Britannic Majesty, King George III of Great Britain and Ireland, and King Louis XV, Louis le Bien-Aimé, the Beloved of France, had dragged on since 1754. What had started as a minor Colonial dispute in the backwoods of North America had spread across the globe to Europe, the East I
