As had happened throughout the eighteenth century, the immensely rich sugar islands of the West Indies were once again the setting for several major Anglo-French confrontations during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars beginning in 1793. One such encounter, and in fact the last fleet action of the period, was the battle fought off the island of St. Domingo on 6 February 1806. At the beginning of that month, a British squadron under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir John Duckworth was refitting in the Basse-Terre Roads of St. Kitt's (the island of St. Christopher) prior to returning home when word reached him that a French armed convoy had been spotted making for St. Domingo. Duckworth weighed anchor and put to sea immediately, being joined en route by the frigate Magicienne and the sloop Epervier to bring his strength up to seven ships-of-the-line, two frigates and two sloops. At daybreak on the 6th he arrived in sight of the St. Domingo Roads where nine French sail, including five ships-of-the-line guarding the now-empty merchantmen, lay at anchor. Observing the enemy coming in-shore, the French warships slipped their cables and, along with two frigates and a corvette, made sail to form two lines of battle to repel Duckworth's assault. Duckworth, having split his squadron into two divisions with himself in Superb at the head of the weather line and Rear-Admiral Louis in Canopus leading the lee, made the signal to attack as soon as his ships were in position. With her band playing "God save the King" and "Nelson of the Nile" and with a portrait of the immortal hero suspended from her mizzen stay, Superb and her consorts bore down on the French and engaged them at close quarters. The ensuing battle was fiercely fought and lasted almost two hours during which Admiral Leissegues' flagship, the huge L'Imperial mounting 120 guns, and the 74-gun Diomede were driven ashore, and the three other ships-of-the-line captured. Even though the frigates and corvettes escaped, having fled the scene when the action began, it was a crushing victory from which Duckworth and his captains emerged covered in glory. Thus ended the second of the two encounters with the French survivors from Trafalgar and the last occassion on which a French fleet posed a serious threat to the Royal Navy in Caribbean waters.