182 THE LIFE O






 CHAPTER V.

General Leclerc advanced against Touoatlt with 25,0u0 men i~
 visions, Intending to uerwhelm him near (.onaiesa-The pD
 concerted by a check given by Tousalint to General Rocham
 Ravine Couleiure.

THE Captain-General of the French army, having
 tered all his disposable Ibwea in the North, and
reinforceumert o' srven thousand men, coutmenced o
in three division. amounltng in all to fie-and-twenty th
men. One division, .omnmanded hb General Il'ohambe
out from Fort Dauphin to march to Saint Mihel; the..
led by Deoiburneaux, a.Jvani'rd ronm Limbd to occupy:
sance; and the third, under General Hard). marching
centre, went to take p,.-seiotu oft Marmeladec. These
divisions were, to.rth-r with Boudet, who was to proceeds
Port-au-Prince, to ellect a iun:.tion at Guinanes in o
surprise iToussaint in hi- headquarters there, and put a
termination to. the war. In propocrti.on as the French
forced iws way into the interior of' the country, whith was
en by mountains;, gorges, and il til..-, the ontlict be
more anwl mre dJilti ult. The suldlers were vexed and
assed at hasinz to do with a thing enemy, who, co
fighting in ambu-h, intli.:tcd wound.i or death as if f
invisible cause, with pertr.i impunity to thcm.lves, w
from the speed with which they filed into well-known
or from the height ofl the mountains, on whb.h the Run
with a heat intolerable to Europesans. In ihc 'e mar. hes,
were rather difi ult than long, the soldiers .utl'erc.d from
gpr, thirt, and t-ereme la4itudc; and aft.br the perils
penalties of the otean, they foiunnd on the land, instead
pose or glory, a warfare in which victory brought no .