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 CHAPTER VII.
Shattered condition of the Fretich army Dork prospects of Tonsau
 Leclere opens negotlalion. Ior peace- Wine orer Christophe anld
 salliee -O lers to recognize Toutsaint as Go e rnor-General Re
 his submlsel.n on conditiun of preservloz I jrilersa] freedom-L
 rerture in the qulie of hji home.

 EARLY had the reducti..n of Cr'rt'-h-Pierrot been bodi
 by the Fr-n .h. The lo-s deeply affli. td te- Captain-Gl
eral, who induced his subordinatle to make it appear as slig
as possible, rmpnmbering the (ontemptuolu terms in which
had spoken of Toussaint and his fobrees, and well dreading i
moral effect on the inhabitants ofa tlhe i-land.
 Alfer the capture of this stronhri'hld. L-.l.krc took measa
for reestablishin lits coaimiuniiCations. III. ord..-red Rotha
beau's division to open them by Ibrming a juni tion at GC<
aires with D.-stb:urnr.aux and direetel Ilard., with his force
to make lor the Cape. The later division weren compelled.
form for lthinielvs.' a rm.il with their arns in their hands. U
dir thle impresio:n that the in aiers hadl Iuil.rel a total defe
Illr.1J h:i'l with lh;m .nly band oft' I'n-itrie who hastened
thIl Cape in inrdl.r tri Ily t I ,-a Ifrom thie ilandl, while on t
wlIIe line of hii mar.-i:, hl en,'.'untered nppo.i-tionl from reg
lar troop or arme-d lahonri-r. But fir th.: i.jorai e ot' the a
diners who were kept unulr di;Lipliri, and tlhe judgment al
energy nt' the command..rs, the whole diilio inl old ha
perishd. From four to fine hundred meni w,:rr lo:t on t
r)Ute.
 While the divisions of PRorhambeau aidl, Hardy proceed
 toward th' North, that oI' Bi.udet, under tle Lommand of Ga
 eral LaIriji,, was '.onnliidtiiJ to return t. S.intt Mari in olI
 to atta.-k Brlair, whii) lp to that time. had rrt-miniud in obsem