page_title: Claude de Roux de Saint-Laurent
section_title: English blockade (1667)
hierarchical_section_title: Claude de Roux de Saint-Laurent / Governor of Saint Christophe / English blockade (1667)
caption_attribution_description: English: A foiled English attempt to retake Saint Christophe in 1667
context_page_description: Claude de Roux, chevalier de Saint-Laurent was a French soldier, a chevalier of the Knights Hospitaller, who was governor of the colony of Saint Christophe on Saint Christopher Island from 1666 to 1689.
  He took office in the Second Anglo-Dutch War, when the French expelled the English from the island, and left office early in the Nine Years' War, when the English expelled the French from the island.
context_section_description: An English squadron commanded by Sir John Berry entered the Caribbean and blockaded Saint Christophe.
  The English fleet arrived off the Nevis point on 4 April 1667.
  The English stayed out of range of the cannons of the fortifications, but kept frigates off the harbour of Saint Christophe to prevent any French ships entering.
  Saint-Laurent wrote to inform La Barre of the dangerous situation on the island and the risk of famine.
  In an effort to relieve the blockade La Barre and the governor of Martinique, Robert de Clodoré combined their forces with the Dutch commander Abraham Crijnssen.
  The Franco-Dutch fleet sailed for Nevis, and engaged the English in the Battle of Nevis (20 May 1667).
  La Barre caused a retreat through his incompetence, and Crijnssen left for Virginia in disgust.
  A larger English fleet arrived under Sir John Harman, which destroyed La Barre's fleet and established English supremacy.
  An English invasion force under Henry Willoughby of 14 warships and 15 or 16 barques carrying soldiers reached Saint Christophe on 17 June 1667.
  The force disembarked at Pointe-des-Palmistes the next day.
  After the troops under Saint-Laurent put up a strong resistance, Willoughby chose to withdraw to Nevis.
  Eight flags had been captured from the English.
  Saint-Laurent sent his nephew to France to report to the king.
caption: English attempt to retake Saint Christophe in 1667
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