Columbus entered the Môle again

Columbus entered it on 29 April 1494, four days before the discovery of Jamaica. Until 1793, it served only as a place of call for ships going from the North to the other parts of the island, and very often English privateers and pirates anchored there. It was at that time that the government of Monsieur Ducasse, who had long been indifferent to its fate, ordered that its establishment be seriously attended to. Thus the Môle, whose great maritime importance caused Raynal to nickname it the Gibraltar of the New World, had its first inhabitants only in 1764; they were Arcadins fleeing English proscription; then Germans, in 1766, were sent from Europe and placed at the Môle, where establishments had been prepared in advance. Considerable and costly fortifications were built there with a view to forbidding the English the approach, the English whose rivalry was formidable to the French.

Rouzier tells this under the entry MOLE SAINT NICOLAS ( le ).