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became the special theatre of executions. All auffezere4
with intrepidity, calmness, and resignation. The more num
the eecntions, the more extensive were the desertions,
stead of terrifying, they exasperated; they fed the insun
though they intended to suppress it. ,
 While the scaffolds were crowded with victims, Leelerc
plied to Dessalines for assistance. He went to the Cape
renewed his protestations of 6delity and detotedneass. Cr
as false, the monster declared that he thirsted Ibr the blood
the revolters. In a moment when his indignation had gaiuq
the mastery, and the agitation of his members manifeed
rage than even his words, the GenerJa-in-ihief said to him. -
transport, The troops which I esxpct from France will gi
me the power of striking a terrible blow." There shall be
shouted Dessalines, in fury, a general earthquake !" A Goy
emnment that stimulates and employs such wrettbes condewmi
itself and forfeits its authority. Instead of carrying on the w.
honorably, Dessalines pretended to entertain feelings in fav
of the revolt. By this means it was that he entrapped Gener.
Belair.
 While Dessalines was subduing Mount Cabso, Leclere og
dered Rochambeau to punish Lamour de Rance ; but the troig
who went in pursuit of him saw only vast fields of fire whi ,
covered his tight. Wli-n circumstances suggested, the barbat
rians sheltered themselves in the heart of precipitous mong
tains, which were to them fortiti'ations stronger than ae
which the art of man ever constructed. All that could .
done was to oppose some limit to the ravages of the foe in
West and the South, the frontiers of which two provinces
had laid waste.
 At the same time the captain of the expedition, seconded
Christophe and Maurepas, employed all his eflbrts both to
down the sedition in the Isle of Tortue, and to arrest the prso
ress of the revolt in the North. But Sans-Souci was an A
can not less agile than Lamour de Rance. lie also coveij
his flight with deserts and dames; he did not, however, fear
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