The night landing loses artillery and finds no Welsh uprising

Seventeen boatloads put about 1,400 personnel ashore under cover of darkness by 2 a.m. on 23 February. The cargo included gunpowder, cartridges, grenades, and 2,000 stands of arms intended for a Welsh uprising, but one boat and much of the artillery were lost in the surf. Tate's political intelligence was as weak as the landing plan because the local population did not join him. Instead the irregular portion of the Legion Noire began deserting and looting almost as soon as it reached land.