The Comte de Vaudreuil in Sceptre, learning…

April 1782 CE

The Comte de Vaudreuil in Sceptre, learning of de Grasse's fate, assumes command of the scattered French naval fleet.

On April 13, he has ten ships with him and sails towards Cap-Français.

The British have lost two hundred and forty-three killed and eioght hundred and sixtee wounded, and two captains out of thirty-six have been killed.

The French loss in killed and wounded has never been stated, but six captains out of thirty have been killed.

It is estimated that the French may have lost as much as three thousand, and more than five thousand French soldiers and sailors have been captured.

The large number shows what a considerable force the French were willing to put ashore with the invasion of Jamaica.

Of the Ville de Paris' crew, over four hundred have ben killed and more than seven hundred have been wounded—more than the casualties of the entire British fleet.

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