The main force arrives off St. Eustatius…
February 1781 CE
Rodney's ships take up position to neutralize any shore batteries.
Two or three shots are fired from the only Dutch warship on the roadstead, the frigate Mars under Captain Count Van Bijland.
Instead of disembarking the troops and launching an immediate assault, Rodney sends a message to Governor Johannes de Graaff suggesting that he surrender to avoid bloodshed.
De Graaff agrees to the proposal and surrenders.
De Graaff has ten guns in Fort Orange and sixty soldiers.
Rodney has over a thousand guns on his ships.
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