The nearby islands of Saint Martin and Saba also surrender by the following day.

There is a brief exchange of fire when two of the British ships shoot at the Mars and Van Bijland answers with his cannons.

Rodney reprimands the captains responsible for this lack of discipline.

The only battle occurs near Sombrero.

Rodney discovers that a convoy of thirty richly loaded Dutch merchant ships had just sailed off for home waters less than two days before his arrival, protected only by a single man-of-war.

He sends three warships after them, and they quickly catch up with the convoy.

The lone Dutch man-of-war is no match for the three British ships and, after a fierce thirty minute pounding, the mortally wounded commander, Rear-Admiral Willem Krul, while dying, orders his captain to lower the flag.

Eight of the Dutch crew are killed.

Krul is taken back to St. Eustatius where he is buried with full honors.

The crews of all Dutch ships taken at St. Eustatius and also those of Krul's convoy are stripped of all their possessions and taken to St. Kitts, where they are imprisoned.