 Led by the French Commissioner, Gaspard Goyrand, they succeeded in taking back most of the island from the British, but on 26 May 1796, their forces defending the fort at Morne Fortune, about 2,000 men, surrendered to a British division under the command of General John Moore.After the capitulation, over 2,500 prisoners of war, mostly black or mixed-race, as well as ninety-nine women and children, were transported from St Lucia to Portchester Castle.