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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Yet they were all spared, and treated, for a long time at least, with the utmost humanity. ted the execution of the compact between them and Rocham- beau. But it is impossible, considering our conduct at other places, to be surprized at, or blame this disposition in the Negro Chief, or his refusal to assist our ships in entering the port by sending them pilots. lie probably had still stronger reasons for distrust than are yet before the public: but it was enough, that our system evidently was not only to dismantle their forts, and destroy their works, for which the fear of their re-occupation by France might furnish a slight pretence; but to carry away their ammunition and military stores; for which no pretence compatible with sincere amity could be found. Dessalines therefore was probably actuated as much by humanity, as by complaisance for our commanders, when he suffered the fleet to escape. He had, it is admitted, the power of destroying them, as he was preparing to do, by red hot shol from the batteries; and he had, as I conceive, an unquestionable right so to act; in order to compel their surrender to himself, notwithstanding their having capitulated to the British squadron. It is impossible to maintain that we had a right without his leave so to rescue from his hands, an enemy who had broken a prior capitulation with him, who then lay at his mercy, and who was not in a condition even to execute the compact, by putting the ships into our possession, but by his permission. If Dessalines did not act upon principles of moderation and mercy; his complaisance for this country was extreme; and intitles him strongly to our favour. Various reports of a massacre at this town and other places at a subsequent period, have been received from Jamaica and North America.?See the Lo...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458979995 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458979997 |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 206 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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