They had, many of them, fought like tigers in other islands; some, it may be, under Victor Hugues himself.

But here they had no leaders.

The Spanish, overpowered by numbers, fell back across the Dry River to the east of the town, and got on a height.

The German jagers climbed the beautiful Laventille hills, and commanded the Spanish and the two paltry mud forts on the slopes: and all was over, happily with almost no loss of life.
Chacon was received by Abercrombie and Harvey with every courtesy; a capitulation was signed which secured the honours of war to the military, and law and safety to the civil inhabitants; and Chacon was sent home to Spain to be tried by a court-martial; honourably acquitted; and then, by French Republican intrigues, calumniated, memorialised against, subscribed against, and hunted (Buonaparte having, with his usual meanness, a hand in the persecution) into exile and penury in Portugal.

At last his case was heard a second time, and tardy justice done, not by popular clamour, but by fair and deliberate law.