Fort Ça-Ira. An English squadron cannonading it is repulsed.

Governor Forbes had taken the offensive at every point. He had Léogane attacked by Major General Bowyer. The place was commanded by Renaud Desruisseaux. On 22 December 1795 (1 Nivôse, Year 4) an English squadron that came to cannonade Fort Ça-Ira was repulsed with loss. At the same time Governor Laveaux, whose activity never slackened, traveled in the first days of January 1796, accompanied by Toussaint Louverture, through the quarters of the North and of the Artibonite where the tricolor flag flew. He visited the cordon of the West. Toussaint did not take him to the Verrettes, for fear that Lapointe might carry him off by some bold stroke. Laveaux returned to Port-de-Paix, where he loaded Toussaint Louverture with marks of affection; he placed him beside himself at table and took pleasure in serving him with his own hands. He talked to him of Villate and continued to represent Villate to him as a dangerous citizen. He was preparing for himself a powerful auxiliary whom he would soon put to use, for he had resolved to move the seat of government to the Cap, where he would find himself face to face with his rival.