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 iillUy audacious chief, threw all into confusion at the Cape,
 ted the guns, and disarmed the European cannoniers."
 o days after, Clervanx and Pdtion made an attack on the
 ,but failed to capture it. So well were they received by
 er Anhouil that, thinking they were opposed by the
 troops expected from France, they drew off their forces,
 .h-, if pressed forward, must have been overwhelming, so
 or were they in number to the defenders of the colonial
 polish. At the moment of the attack, Leclerc, as a mean-
 of precaution, sent pn board vessels in the harbor, whose
 had been greatly reduced by the fever, detachments of
 colonial soldiers who had remained at the Cape. The
 panic-struck, cried out, Let us kill those who may kill
 They fell on the black soldiers, and ruthlessly drowned
 m more than a thousand.
 hen Christophe, already prepared for defection, and lately
 to use his phrase, as a benolent .spectator, in other
 -, watching the right moment,-joined Clervaux. A few
 after, Desalines threw himself into opposition.
be insurrection became general. The entire population
Ili the enemy of France. The mother, the daughter, the
 as well as the father and the brother, all were soldiers.
 woods were their camps, dens their dwellings; the moun-
 Stheir ramparts; they found their food in the spontaneous
 cts of the earth; they transmuted into arms the instra-
 Itof agriculture. Stones hurled from the rocks served
 instead of artillery. They threw their whole life into
 ts, combats, and ambuscades. A new future was before
 "Death or liberty !" again became their rallying cry.
 here the insurgents repulsed, and laid waste the enemies
 ir freedom. They captured Port-de-Paix, Gonaives, Fort
 bin. In the evacuation of thre last plate, General de La-
 .was obliged in his extremity to destroy powder and pro-
 to the value of two millions of francs. Escaping by sea
 Cape, he lost in the short voyage sixty-six sick persons,
 WMmolres, vol. II. ~24, seq.
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