Caribbean (West Indies). The French governor of Martinique takes advantage of the inaction of the Englishman Barrington in Barbados due to a lack of reinforcements, to land a force of 2,000 men on Dominica, where the British resist for a short time before surrendering. The confrontation in the Western Hemisphere between the French and the British is continually being played out on the soil and seas of the newly formed United States and the Caribbean.
