Did the French collaborated with the St. Vincent Indigenous People (SIP) to fight the losing battle against the English? This is a very important question, we should examine.
We are asked to believe that the French teamed up with the SIP in 1795 in battle against the English; barring the fact, that just over a year earlier the English and the Garifuna had just signed a Peace Treaty, which was manipulated by the English to suit themselves. There is the possibility, the reason the Peace Treaty came about to end the 1772 war between the SIP and the English; was motivated by the fact that the English, realized, if they continued in the war against the SIP, the cost they would acquirer in loss of their troops and equipment would have been too extensive and they would not have achieved their objective. Note, it is not the MO of the colonial settlers, to show sympathy or to stop a war they were winning; because they were humanitarians and were concerned about the welfare of the native whose land they wanted to rape and plunder of its rich resources. So with all intent and purpose we can safely conclude, that the peace negotiations, were initiated by the English to suit their purpose.
We must never forget that the men and women who represented their respective Crowns, in the so-called New World, were not regular law abiding members of their society. Most of these settlers and the fighting men that made up the troops, the European sent to explore and settled the "New World" were vicious unrepentant criminals, who had committed unforgiving heinous crimes against their own countrymen and in some case their country. These men were facing life and other lengthy prison sentences that would have kept them locked away in prison, forever or for most of their useful life. These harden and vicious criminals, were offered their freedom, under the condition that they accept banishment from their respective counties, go on these assignment in the name and the enrichment of themselves and their King and never to return home again. a large number of imprisoned people accepted the deals; for being free in a strange place is much better then to be locked away in a familiar place.
In very few cases, some of these people, who were banished, had their banishment lifted, for outstanding work in enriching the monarchy. It was most of these settlers desire to go above and beyond what was required of them and do whatever, they deemed necessary to impressed their king, in an effort of having their banishment lifted. It was one way to quench their longing to return to their respective homeland and live out the rest of their lives, in relative comfort, with whatever wealth they amassed for themselves in the New World..
Therefore, having considered the content of the forgoing paragraph, we must conclude that any such treaty, would have been called for by the unscrupulous English, to benefit the English. In that agreement, the English took sovereignty of the entire island and give the SIP some lands, they already own. We must never forget that the English were very deliberate in their actions. The big questions we must ask here are:
1. Why would the English initiate a cease fire, in the form of a peace treaty if they were winning the war? An outright victory would have been a feather in the cap of the English, to have finally decimated, the vicious, cannibals once and for all. The decimation of the SIP would have afforded the English settlers the privilege of permanent and uninterruptedly settling and profiting from the land. A fate, the SIP did not allowed them to accomplish, even after one hundred and fifty years, of the English trying to do so.
2. What had changed in the conditions with the English, to merit the breaking of the Peace Treaty or more so; what have changed within the English camp, to cause them to reignited the war that led them to secure such an overwhelming victory over the SIP? A nation they were unable to defeat just over a year earlier, but is alleged to defeat just months later, even with the so-called French reinforcements.
Let's look at the facts:
1. From 1635 the SIP adequately defended their island home from all intruders.
11. If the English were winning the 1792 war, why didn't the English decimate the SIP who have been an economic and physical thorn in their side for about one hundred and fifty years?
The SIP were skilled and confident in their ability to defeat the English and did not need the help of the French to do so. Another very important question that we must ask is: what did the French had to gain for teaming up with the SIP? Let us not forget that the French, had lost interest in St. Vincent and in 1763 they publicly declared their lack of interest in the same and had entered into an agreement with the English to that effect; Creating a lapse of 32 years. There were no sudden discovery that made the island mineral rich, and the SIP that hindered the French and the English economic progress was still there trying to protect their island.
If we answer the question, what have changed, from just a few months ago within the English camp, to have shifted the pendulum in favor of the English, winning the SIP war; then it will all be put into prospective.
Extract from - An extensive plot to kill Chief Chatoyer
"The peace treaty was just a part of the British plans to postpone the fighting with the SIP, until the added troops, they requested arrived on the island. In 1795, less than two years after the Peace Treaty was signed, which was just enough time for the deployment of troops, to reach St. Vincent, the treaty was broken and war broke out between the SIP and the British once more. By this time, the British troops on the island of St. Vincent were already properly reinforced, to the point where they almost matched the SIP fighting population."
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