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, having become active again, had spread from the North
4)e South; that Rochambeau, in order to stop its progress,
 employed the force of arms and the utmost terror; that
use remedies had proved powerless; that the insurrection,
iaated by a fanatical spirit of liberty, had broken down every
hbankment; that at the head of the insurrection appeared in
ib West Dessalines, Christophe in the North, and in the South
i'rou; that after baring laid waste the interior, the insurgents
iraged the coasts like pirates; that the colonists were in a
te of extreme affliction, at seeing so great an armament over-
belmed with reverses; and that the only means of safety was
either expedition.
'Another expedition was impossible. Already had a bad feeling
tben between France and England. Soon the latter power
dlared war against the tbrmer. This rupture gave the linish-
blow to the French cause in Hayti. On land, Rocham-
h-i's troops were invested by the insurgents. At sea the
Bglish were supreme. Nevertheless. the French general
Untained himself in his post with an intrepidity which would
ire done honor to a good cause. The sufferings of the be-
ged b-came extreme; rarely have woes equal to theirs been
erienced. Roebhambeau has related how pitiable was the
satence or himself and comrades during this period, when
ceed between death and life; they appeased their hunger as
Sas they could by eating their horses, mules, asses, and even
r dogs,-) es, the very hounds they had obtained in order to
[i down their thus.
'Tbings remained in this condition until the middle of Novem-
r (18u3); then the btsiegers tbrced some of the exterior
Wks, and prepared Ior a new attack. The inflpxibility of the
nach commander was at length obliged to give way. Well
1a he know that an assault, ilf made, must succeed, and he
red to fall into the hands of his furious asailants [Ie of-
Sto capitulate. The oifftr was accepted. On the 10th of
ember, the articles were signed. The treaty stipulated that
PFrench should evacuate Cap FranSois at the end of ten