Saint-Marc. Brisbane dies there.

A fortnight later Thomas Brisbane died at Saint-Marc of the wound he had received at the dike of the Artibonite (2 March 1795). His death was a real loss for the English; and the men of color of Saint-Marc, whom he had protected against the colonial party, often without success, it is true, mourned him. He had come to Saint-Domingue as a captain in the 49th regiment. The English, commanded in the district of the Artibonite by less able officers, lost several important points two weeks after his death. In March Toussaint addressed a proclamation to all his “brothers and sisters” of Les Verrettes. He told them that the moment had come when the thick veil that obscured the light was about to fall; that they must no longer doubt the decrees of the National Convention; that the French were their brothers; but that the English, the Spaniards and the royalists were ferocious beasts who caressed them only to suck their blood to satiety, and that of their wives and children. Nevertheless he could not enter Les Verrettes.