TOUTSSaNT L'OUVEITURE. 1

 if defeat ensued, there were the mountains for a
 Succession ol strongholds where an almost unlim-
 m eight be maintained.
bh the fleet put it'elt' in movement. After having
Kerverseau to go and take possession of the city of
gingo, Leelere directed the armament in three divis-
RIt Lbree principal points; Fort Dauphin, and the city
'pein the North, and Port-au-Prince in the West. The
s thus invested. No declaration of war was made, no
jons were orpeed. The squadrons sailed to the several
L.if they approa.hedi a filicndly shore, and as a matter
pj.eatered friendly harbors. Nor could they be chal-
.Toussaint poe(-.e.d no 'ceelk, and if' he had vessels,
mot a Frenchb uhject, and were these not French ships
loch commanders '
m not possible ior Isaac and Placide L'Ourerture any
.o doubt the nature of the errand on which the arma-
j been sent. They drew up, in writing, remonstrances
hey presented to Leclere, who, doubtless, smiled in his
tat their easy laith.