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Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
. INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES .
TAULIAMUMT-STIIEET , JULY I "„ 1797 . LTEUTENANT-Coionel Simcoe , commanding the British Forces in the Island of St . Domingo , states , in a letter to the Right Hon . Henry Dundas , dated Port-au-Prince , May 8 , that having provided for the defence of Port-au-Prince and the adjoining posts , he marched the army against Grenier , to prevent a junction of the enemy ' s forces under Touissaint . His subsequent operations he relates as follows : ' Colonel Dessources was then placed at the head of zcoo troops , and such
prefatory arrangements were made as provided for the protection of L'Arcshuye , and were calculated to mislead the enemy . On the 16 th , he marched early in the morning from Port-au-Prince to Tourmier . The enemy , as was their custom , p laced some troops in ambuscade , who were soon dispersed , and the King's forces arrived at Tourmier with little loss . The enemy had occupied two posts on tbe crest of the mountain D'Hospirre , on each side of Tourmier , and nearly at two miles distance from it , at the habitations of Boutillier and St . Laurent . It was necessary to dislodge them from these positions . Colonel De Peyster was
therefore detached to Boutillier , from which , with his usual gallantry and good conduct , he drove tlie enemy . The post of Si . Laurent was more obstinately defended , and , by the unfortunate loss of Major Pouchet , who vyas killed in leading on the Jeremie troops , they were thrown into confusion ; nor was the post taken till a greater force , with cannon , appeared against it . The delay occasioned by the defence of St . Laurent induced Co ! . Dessources to postpone the attack of the battery till the next clay . . The defence of the Cul de Sac was entrusted to the Baron Montalemberl , who made a considerable detachment to the pass where the road from Leogane by Grenier enters the plain . The detachment was skilfully conducted bv Major O'Gorman . It attracted the notice of considerable bodies of the
enemy , and on its return to the Croix des Bouquets in the evening , was attacked on all sides by small parties , who were repulsed . * Touissaint entered the plain in the course of the day , and marched to the side of the Croix des Bouquets , actuated , as it is said , by some vague report of that important post being to be abandoned on his first appearance . His cavalry fell iu with the advanced posts of the Baron Montaleinbert ' s cavalry , under the command of Capt . Comte Manoux . That officer , collecting his troops , immediately charged the enemy with great vivacity , when they fled , and withdrew , with the utmost
expedition , to the mountain . ' In the mean time Capt . Couchet , of his Majesty ' s ship Abergavenny , with some armed vessels , proceeded off Leogane , which place has been effectually blockaded since-my arrival at Port-au-Prince , and made various demonstrations to draw the . enemy ' s attention to that side . 'On the morning of the 17 th Col . Dessources . having made bis dispositions , marched in two colums , the left directly to Grenier , under the direction of Col . Depeyster , in which was the British detachment commanded by Major Clay . The
right column , under the direction of Colonel Vicom-. e D'Alzune , descended from St . Laurent . Upon the division of the left arriving in lhe bottom , which separated the post of Grenier from the enemy ' s battery , it turned to the right , and joined the column that had marched from St . Laurent . The fog and haze in the bottom prevented the enemy from seeing this movement . It was also concealed by the judicious manner in which Capt . Spicer of the P . oyal Artillery threw shells from the height of Fournier from a howiizer and carronade , directing ' . hern against the various ambuscades and defences which the enemy had thrown up to protect their battery from any attack in it ! front or 011 its right .. On the junction of his
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Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
. INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES .
TAULIAMUMT-STIIEET , JULY I "„ 1797 . LTEUTENANT-Coionel Simcoe , commanding the British Forces in the Island of St . Domingo , states , in a letter to the Right Hon . Henry Dundas , dated Port-au-Prince , May 8 , that having provided for the defence of Port-au-Prince and the adjoining posts , he marched the army against Grenier , to prevent a junction of the enemy ' s forces under Touissaint . His subsequent operations he relates as follows : ' Colonel Dessources was then placed at the head of zcoo troops , and such
prefatory arrangements were made as provided for the protection of L'Arcshuye , and were calculated to mislead the enemy . On the 16 th , he marched early in the morning from Port-au-Prince to Tourmier . The enemy , as was their custom , p laced some troops in ambuscade , who were soon dispersed , and the King's forces arrived at Tourmier with little loss . The enemy had occupied two posts on tbe crest of the mountain D'Hospirre , on each side of Tourmier , and nearly at two miles distance from it , at the habitations of Boutillier and St . Laurent . It was necessary to dislodge them from these positions . Colonel De Peyster was
therefore detached to Boutillier , from which , with his usual gallantry and good conduct , he drove tlie enemy . The post of Si . Laurent was more obstinately defended , and , by the unfortunate loss of Major Pouchet , who vyas killed in leading on the Jeremie troops , they were thrown into confusion ; nor was the post taken till a greater force , with cannon , appeared against it . The delay occasioned by the defence of St . Laurent induced Co ! . Dessources to postpone the attack of the battery till the next clay . . The defence of the Cul de Sac was entrusted to the Baron Montalemberl , who made a considerable detachment to the pass where the road from Leogane by Grenier enters the plain . The detachment was skilfully conducted bv Major O'Gorman . It attracted the notice of considerable bodies of the
enemy , and on its return to the Croix des Bouquets in the evening , was attacked on all sides by small parties , who were repulsed . * Touissaint entered the plain in the course of the day , and marched to the side of the Croix des Bouquets , actuated , as it is said , by some vague report of that important post being to be abandoned on his first appearance . His cavalry fell iu with the advanced posts of the Baron Montaleinbert ' s cavalry , under the command of Capt . Comte Manoux . That officer , collecting his troops , immediately charged the enemy with great vivacity , when they fled , and withdrew , with the utmost
expedition , to the mountain . ' In the mean time Capt . Couchet , of his Majesty ' s ship Abergavenny , with some armed vessels , proceeded off Leogane , which place has been effectually blockaded since-my arrival at Port-au-Prince , and made various demonstrations to draw the . enemy ' s attention to that side . 'On the morning of the 17 th Col . Dessources . having made bis dispositions , marched in two colums , the left directly to Grenier , under the direction of Col . Depeyster , in which was the British detachment commanded by Major Clay . The
right column , under the direction of Colonel Vicom-. e D'Alzune , descended from St . Laurent . Upon the division of the left arriving in lhe bottom , which separated the post of Grenier from the enemy ' s battery , it turned to the right , and joined the column that had marched from St . Laurent . The fog and haze in the bottom prevented the enemy from seeing this movement . It was also concealed by the judicious manner in which Capt . Spicer of the P . oyal Artillery threw shells from the height of Fournier from a howiizer and carronade , directing ' . hern against the various ambuscades and defences which the enemy had thrown up to protect their battery from any attack in it ! front or 011 its right .. On the junction of his