156:. Grenville had been a scene of brutality, a "massacre of the English white inhabitants." The rebels looted and burned houses and murdered many British planters. They shed less blood in Gouyave, instead capturing several of the white English population. Ninian Home, the former governor, was one of those captured. Home had left St. George's to visit his estates in the parish of St. John. After returning to the mountains of Belvedere, the rebels joined a large group of slaves who had fled the plantations where they worked. In the mountains, Fédon built several fortifications to withstand British attacks.
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