He had left France hoping to establish an island colony after hearing about the success of the English on Saint Kitts, but his fleet was destroyed in a clash with the Spanish army, leaving him with only his flagship.
Warner also willingly accepted the French in an attempt to out-populate the local Kalinago, of whom he was growing suspicious.
[1] The Spanish for their part also considered endorsed these islands since Christopher Columbus discovered (as he signed a treaty with the Spanish crown in the late fifteenth century, all the places he discovered from that time were for Spain), which prompted them to send a Spanish force to clear the islands of the area of foreign settlement seized St. Kitts, to quickly occupy the two islands of the archipelago and deport those early English and French settlers in 1629, during the Anglo-Spanish war of 1625.
However, following the peace treaty between England and Spain in 1630, the Spanish permitted the re-establishment of the English and French colonies.
In 1689, during the War of the Grand Alliance, France re-occupied the entire island, and decimated the English farms.