ABSTRACT
Captain Grammont took the Spanish officer who brought the answer with him into the city, and set fire to it in his presence : he also cut off the heads of five Spaniards, and then told the messenger to go and tell his master that his orders should be punctually executed. A more conciliating message was the result, and Captain Grammont liberated his prisoners, but he burnt the city, and blew up the fort. They arrived upon the 7th of July, 1686, and left it upon the 29th August, after celebrating the festival of St. Louis, and making a bonfire of more than two hundred thousand crowns worth of the wood of Campechy.
