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husbands, companion-, faithful friends in servitude, in war,
Fl'eedom. A just resentment commands us to sacrifice yon;
t go across that blooJ-stained sea, and join your own color;
hold in us enemies but not exerurioners." Ferrou then
ht them in a vessel to ('a.iIs, and forthwith made his arrange-
ents for marching against the city.
Informed of this reiul,. provoked by imprudent attacks, La-
tIne precipirately returned rtum the frontiers of the South,.
here he was engaged in che king the ravages of the terrible
unour di Rance. Scarcely had be got back when he discov-
Bd the imoke of Ferrou's camp, in the vicinity of Portau-
iace. H.' ii-ll on him and compelled him to retreat into the
gged mountain called La Hotte, whose decomposing rocks,
baking and bursting under meu's feet, throw them into their
yses. But F.rron knewr thi. sa.ilr ways. Thos- he chose, and
im them he ruhi-Il down to make an irruption into the plains
ar the town, Petit Goarve. Thi. body of troops employed in
a defitnee of that city wa.s in part composed ol' people of
lor, and partly of Frtin. hmen. The Ibrmer joined the devas-
Dor, the latter took to flight.
In order the more erlectually to keep his eye on the insurrec-
m which now co'ccred three pnjvinees, Rochambeau had fixed
Residence at Port-au-Prince, still drawing after him a great
biber of women, with all the- equipage of effeminate luxury.
i soon as he had learned the ilisastrous news, he sent Ndter-
od by sea to ree-apture the city of Petit Goave. As he did
4 doubt of success, h,: gave his lieutenant a pack of hounds
itly to pursue the in;urgents with, and partly to devour the
iaoners. Nctervood hastened on his errand, and made an at-
I. But the enemy, setting the city on fire, entrenched
imselves in a bort, whenci they dealt death on their assail-
ta. Ndtervood received a mortal wound in the midst of his
tiers, who were that perishing, being placed between a burn-
town and a powerful stronghold. Flight by sea was the
y resource; and the dos, in the confusion dispersing abroad,
iWFd to the danE,,-rq and disgrace of the defeat. Thus Ndter-
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