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 forward in the night, early in December, with
 hundred cavalry, he, by ambuscade and sudden
 e the enemy back in disgrace.
ALowever, he had not rsrength enough to hold the
he Artibonite, especially as Jean Franqois, with his
piMpathies, was impending over it in order to aeist the
Ade withdrew toward the North. Beftre he left La
aike for Gonant-s, which is in that direction, he gave
f the humanity by which he was actuated. In the
,a Petite RiviLre, there were children and wbmen,of
dor, who were destitute of the means of subsistence.
Sof Charity who had come hither from the quarters
b the Englihh, ministered to oithrs 'rC-n in their own
L*e tommaud It" L'Ouverture, bread was d. by day
pi:tese 6utfli.rtr, aud to the most wretched uf them
p was distributed.
g.with almost the speed of lightning to Marmolade,
'organizing a eullicient force to cli-ar the diitrictof
 .Rivibrc and its heights, which lie above Saint
iB bands of Jean Francois. Setting in movement
, he quitted Dondon in the centre of the Iborce on
D December. In ijur ilay-., he took and destroyed
itpositions. That of Barmby, situated on a fright-
 and deltnded by three pieces of cannon, besides
g8 carried by th mnere- rir e of resolute bravery.
i n been carried iunto eClit it, all points, the insurrec-
t have been sulprt''ed. It tJiled in one point; and
 e to Jean Francois, who, passing through it
 frea, surrounded Toussaint L'Ouverture. Dis-
 brave man (uC a way through his enemies, and,
 a cordon of great extent, returned to his
 aon, on the 7th of January, 1;9.,.
 of the We;t, which L'Ou'erture commanded, had
 extremity La Granid Rivnire, in the centre of
 tof the North, and for its western limit La Sa-
 of the Artibonite, in the Department of the