AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE
CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST INDIES,
IN THE YEAR 1794,
UNDER THE COMMAND OF THEIR EXCELLENCIES
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR CHARLES GREY, K. B.
AND
VICE ADMIRAL SIR JOHN JERVIS, K. B.
COMMANDERS IN CHIEF IN THE WEST INDIES;
WITH
THE REDUCTION
OF THE
ISLANDS OF MARTINIQUE, ST. LUCIA, GUADALOUPE, MARIGALANTE, DESIADA, &c.
AND THE EVENTS THAT FOLLOWED THOSE UNPARALLELED SUCCESSES, AND CAUSED THE LOSS OF GUADALOUPE.


By the Rev. COOPER WILLYAMS, A. M.
VICAR OF EXNING, SUFFOLK, AND LATE CHAPLAIN OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP BOYNE.


LONDON:
PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY;
FOR G. NICOL, BOOKSELLER TO HIS MAJESTY, PALL-MALL; B. AND J. WHITE, FLEET-STREET; AND J. ROBSON, NEW BOND-STREET.
1796.


TO
GENERAL SIR CHARLES GREY,
KNIGHT OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH,
AND
ADMIRAL SIR JOHN JERVIS,
KNIGHT OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HIS MAJESTY'S FLEETS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN,
THIS SHORT ACCOUNT
OF
THEIR BRILLIANT EXERTIONS IN THEIR COUNTRY'S CAUSE,
IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY
THEIR OBEDIENT
AND GRATEFUL HUMBLE SERVANT,
Exning, August 10, 1796.
COOPER WILLYAMS.


PREFACE.