Fourteen days later, the British signed the Whitehall Accord on 9 February with counter-revolutionary French planters, which allowed them to keep their chattel property.

[citation needed] On 5 February, a British fleet under the command of Royal Navy Admiral Sir John Jervis landed troops under the command of Sir Charles Grey on the island, which proceeded to capture the island from the Republicans in concert with French planters.

[2] HMS Asia was unable to get close to the fort and Zebra went in alone, with her captain, Richard Faulknor.

Despite facing heavy Republican artillery fire, Faulknor ran Zebra close under the walls.

[1] The Governor General of Martinique at the time, Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, surrendered to Grey.