In March he used this as a base from which naval transport carried separate forces under Brigadiers Byam Crump and John Clavering to attack French positions around the island.
The high number of deaths was in part due to what Crump called "very sultry weather", and also to lack of housing where the sick could be treated properly.
[7] Around the end of 1759 General Crump wrote a letter to William Pitt in which he said the French islands were completely dependent on this illegal trade and on the prizes they seized.
[8] Traders in Guadeloupe during the English occupation continued to make fraudulent shipments to the Dutch colony of Sint Eustatius, which Crump called "that nest of thieves".
On 24 October 1759 Crump, who badly needed replacements for the men who had died, wrote to Barrington asking him to personally prevent "frauds" who would destroy the Guadeloupe regiments.
"[10] On 11 March 1760 Colonel Byam Crump, Governor of Guadeloupe and Lieutenant-colonel of the 4th Regiment of Foot was seized with an ague [fever] fit about 4 and died about 5, in strong convulsions.