A shekara ta 1697, a karkashin Baron de Pointis ya yi nasarar mamaye birnin Kudancin Amirka na
Cartagena de Indias, amma bai sami kashi 1/5 na ganimar da aka alkawarta ba. Daga nan sai ya tashi zuwa Faransa, don neman rabonsa daga Sarki Louis XIV da kansa. A zahiri shi da mutanensa sun sami diyya na Francs miliyan 1.4. Bugu da ƙari, an ɗaukaka shi zuwa admiral kuma ya zama jarumi a cikin tsari na Saint Louis.