Guiding Light of Freedom (Requesting Monthly Tickets)

In the end, Brand still compromised.

After all, the Negroes on the Bahamas Archipelago merely shouting that they wanted independence was entirely different in terms of danger from them actually setting up a governmental structure and taking control of the island's administration and economy.

By then, as Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force, he would inevitably bear full responsibility.

As for reinforcements, the news he had received last week was that preparations were not yet complete. At the earliest, five thousand soldiers would not reach the Caribbean Sea for another four months.

Before then, he needed someone to help him stabilize the situation in the Bahamas. At the very least, the rebel government could not be allowed to casually confiscate the island's plantations and drive out all the British.

And that "commission" for the French would naturally be paid by the Governor of the Bahamas—when Sir Essex fled Nassau, he had taken quite a bit of money with him.

That afternoon, Brisot boarded the British transport ship Smile, which was laden with supplies, and returned to Saint-Domingue.

He would have authority to deploy this ship for the next several months. This was one of the conditions for helping the British suppress the Bahamas uprising.

As for France's own transport ships, they had been "hijacked" by the Saint-Domingue rebels three months earlier.

Brisot first stopped at French-controlled Saint Lucia and replaced the crew with French sailors before continuing northwest.

After the Smile had left the Lesser Antilles, a sailor brought one of the Black "coolies" who had boarded earlier into the officers' meeting room.

Brisot rose, bowed slightly to the ragged but sharp-eyed man, and spoke in English.

"Mr. Jones, it is a pleasure to meet you here!"

Jones was the leader of the Bahamas Abolitionist Movement. After his rebel army had