I Am the Crown Prince in France - Chapter 695

Chapter 694 Dividends and Tableware

While the British army continued to reduce its numbers due to disease, the black governments of Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the Lesser Andres Islands began to send troops to reinforce Saint-Domingue.

They are all members of the “Caribbean Military Council”. Even if Saint-Domingue, the strongest black regime, falls, other governments will have the fate of being ousted one by one by the British.

In addition, these islands have received assistance from Santo Domingo before, so now they are naturally sparing no effort to return the aid.

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As a result, black volunteers boarded American merchant ships from various islands every day and continuously gathered in Santo Domingo.

American merchant ships also brought a large amount of food, clothing, medicine, and even military horses and other supplies to support tens of thousands of black soldiers in the Duarte Mountains and launched continuous attacks on the British army.

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London.

Number 10 Downing Street.

“The situation seems quite serious.” Lord Grenville put Marquis Cunningham’s report on the table and looked at Little Pete.

This report is filled with despair.

Only 4,000 of the 7,500 soldiers of the expeditionary force are currently capable of maintaining combat capability, and the others are suffering from various diseases.

In the past few months, only about 300 British soldiers have died in battle, but as many as 530 have died of illness.

This was the number two months ago, and there are only more soldiers getting sick now.

At the same time, although Marquis Cunningham occupied the important towns on the island such as Port-au-Prince, Marian, and Magua, he could never find the main force of the rebels.

He tried to go into the mountains to look for those niggas, but was troubled by the wet and muddy environment, and voluntarily withdrew after half a month.

At the end of the report, Marquis Cunningham stated that unless London could send an additional 4,000 expeditionary troops to the Caribbean, he would be unable to defend Port-au-Prince in at most six months.

“It’s worse than the worst case scenario I imagined.” Little Pete sighed, “By the way, you should have heard that Spain is also preparing to recognize the nigger government. In other words, there will be three big countries Recognized the independence of Saint-Domingue.”

Yes, after the Netherlands, the Americans also recognized the Republic of Saint-Domingue, driven by huge sugar profits.

“It’s 4.” Grenville corrected, “France will do the same soon.”

Little Pete nodded: “Yes. Frankly speaking, the French are really one step ahead this time.”

After such a long game, if the British still can’t see that France is behind the situation in the Caribbean, then they really don’t have to sit on the throne of the world’s hegemon.

“General Jervis and the Marquess of Wyndham both advocate continuing to increase the number of troops.” He glanced at the Foreign Secretary, “What do you think?”

Jervis was Lord of the Sea. Wyndham is the former British War Secretary.

“If you try to grab everything, you will get nothing in the end.” Grenville said, “Santo Domingo is obviously a bottomless pit. We have now thrown nearly 500,000 pounds into it. In addition to the casualties of soldiers, Nothing was gained. It’s time to give up.”

Little Pete pressed the armrest of the chair hard, took a deep breath, and said, “But, we need sucrose.”

“The solution is France.” Grenville said without hesitation, “As long as France can be brought to its knees, we can ask them to sell beet sugar at subsidized prices.

“Even after black people in the Caribbean lose support, we can find ways to regain control there.”

Little Pete smiled: “There is a person who has exactly the same opinions as you. Do you know who he is?”

“you?”

“No, it’s the Marquis of Wellesley.”

Grenville nodded: “I heard that his military reforms are going well.”

“It will be more productive if there are no constraints from those old-fashioned people.”

“So, we must speed up the process of starting the war?”

“The problem now is that our allies haven’t had their snack yet.”

Little Peter was naturally referring to the Prussian-Austrian partition of Poland.

Grenville immediately said: “Then help them buy a new set of tableware. You know, this is a necessary expense.”

Little Pete smiled: “I will ask someone to propose a 500,000-pound ‘tableware’ budget in parliament the day after tomorrow. Please support it.”

“This is a matter of duty.”

Afterwards, the two detailed the terms of aid to Puao, and then Grenville prepared to stand up and leave.

He had just taken a few steps when he suddenly remembered something and turned around: “By the way, Mr. Peter, maybe we can get some ‘dividends’ back from the Caribbean.”

“What do you mean?”

“Give the Caribbean to the Americans,” Grenville said. “We cannot let the French control it.”

Little Peter nodded thoughtfully: “It seems like you should go to Philadelphia.”

“With pleasure.”

…

Western Poland.

Poznan Province.

General Horn looked back at the fortress behind him without much sense of accomplishment.

The Poles were almost defenseless, with less than 600 soldiers stationed in the most important fortress in western Poland.

Just one day after Potsdam declared war on Poland, he led his army to easily capture it.

His Majesty the King must be regretting it now and should not have delayed taking action until now.

Horn glanced westward: “Thank you, His Majesty George III.”

What he said was true.

If the British had not asked William II to send troops immediately on the condition of a low-interest loan of 250,000 pounds, the latter would have planned to wait until Russia eliminated the main Polish forces before declaring war.

It is said that this loan is issued monthly. If Prussia fails to achieve the military goals agreed by both parties, the loan will be suspended.

Horn looked to the north again and said to himself: “At this rate, it should take less than two months, maybe one month is enough.”

William II’s order to him was to occupy the entire Greater Poland region and the most important port of Gdansk within two months.

In the next three days, Horn led his 35,000 troops through Gniezno like a tour, and declared the occupation of this place without any fighting.

The Poles always naively trusted the Pop-Prussian Alliance Treaty. Even though they removed Prussian officers from the military command system at the repeated request of the French Crown Prince, they did not believe that Prussia would attack them at all.

So much so that just ten days ago, Count Potocki, the Polish foreign minister, went to Potsdam to meet with William II and asked him to send troops from East Prussia to help Poland resist Russian aggression.

William II rejected him flatly on the grounds that the “Polish Constitution” was passed without the permission of Prussia.

Then, Horn’s army stabbed Poland in the back.

At the combat meeting that night, Horn looked at the map of Poland in front of him and said to one of his generals: “General Hoepner, you lead the Stendal Corps, the Berlin Corps, and the Royal Seventh Artillery Battalion to continue the attack in the direction of Kalisz.”

He looked around at several other officers and said: “Others, follow me north immediately and occupy Gdansk as quickly as possible.”