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They forded rivers, they had at times to force themselves through thickets, once or twice they lost their way, and always ahead of them, purple and sullen, the great mountain peak with La Ferriere upon its crest rose slowly out of the background until it dominated the landscape. Long after dark they blundered upon rather than came to the village at its foot where they were to pass the night.
"What does he want, this 'white'?" they asked, suspiciously. "Like all whites," answered Stuart, striving to talk in the character of the negro horse-boy, "he wants something he has no right to have." "And what is that?" "Information. He says he is a military strategist, and is going to make La Ferrière, up there, a modern fort." "He will never get there," said one of the soldiers.
At Craonne, on the 7th of March, he destroyed Blucher's corps in a severe action, but the victory was attended by great loss to the conqueror. Marshal Victor was seriously wounded, as well as Generals Grouchy and La Ferriere.
He went to Washington and thence south; he visited Tuskegee and Atlanta, and then went off at a tangent to Hayti. He was drawn to Hayti by Hesketh Pritchard's vivid book, WHERE BLACK RULES WHITE, and like Hesketh Pritchard he was able to visit that wonderful monument to kingship, the hidden fastness of La Ferriere, the citadel built a century ago by the "Black Napoleon," the Emperor Christophe.
Il n'est pas si grand, et je suis sur que cela lui fera plaisir." M. de la Ferriere bowed, and thus it came to pass that I witnessed the performance after all, being seated on a stool behind some extremely beautiful women whose white shoulders repeatedly distracted my attention from the stage.
'It is my money and not myself that has tempted him back, she cried, and she looked down the long line of her lovers. She had given her money to M. Delacour.... But no, he had loved her whatever the others might think, she knew that was so.... She could have had the Comte de la Ferriere, and how many others? rich men, too men to whom money was no consideration.
An irregularly disposed clump of posts, stuck into the ground, supported a rusted and broken tin roof, without walls, but boasting a brushwood pile on one side such was the entire barracks of the La Ferrière garrison. The furniture consisted only of a log on which to sit, a few cooking utensils, and a pile of rags in the driest corner. True, there was plenty of room in the Citadel.
Monsieur le Vicomte is of a particular disposition, and an unwitnessed donation may very easily be twisted into a theft. He touched a bell, which was answered by a man having the appearance of a confidential valet. To him he gave a key. 'Bring me the despatch-box that came yesterday, La Ferriere, said he. 'You will at the same time present my compliments to Dr.
Monsieur le Vicomte is of a particular disposition, and an unwitnessed donation may very easily be twisted into a theft." He touched a bell, which was answered by a man having the appearance of a confidential valet. To him he gave a key. "Bring me the despatch-box that came yesterday, La Ferrière," said he. "You will at the same time present my compliments to Dr.
Picton simultaneously attacked the left, and in less than an hour, both were successful, and Ney's position was laid bare; his skirmishers, however, continued to hold their ground in front, and La Ferrière, a colonel of hussars, dashing boldly forward at this very moment, carried off fourteen prisoners from the very front of our line.
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