`` Junon '' was on a mission Arranging to carry Carry_goods trade goods from the Îles des Saintes near Guadeloupe back to France and was part of a succession of French warships sent Sending during 1808 and the early months of 1809 in an effort to break Destroying the British blockade Besieging of the French Caribbean , which was destroying Destroying the economies and morale of the islands .