View from the Deck of the Upton Castle Transport, of the British Army Landing, 29th...

Mauritius; A few months after the Battle of Grand-Port, the British assembled a larger expeditionary force on the island of Rodrigues - 350 miles to the east of Mauritius. They then set sail in six vessels under Albemarle Bertie and landed on the 29th November 1810 in the north of the island. Some ten thousand men under Sir John Abercromby set foot near Cap Malheureux and at once began to march against Port Louis. After a few sporadic attacks, the French troops retreated into Port Louis. Two thousand more British troops landed at Petite Rivière, on the west, on the fourth day, and prepared to attack Port Louis from the south. The French defences were overcome and on the 3rd December 1810 the French capitulation was signed. So ended ninety years of French occupation; #119;