Léogane. Sorties against the besiegers; Forbes raises the siege.

Meanwhile General Forbes had surrounded Léogane. He commanded in person the left wing of his army, which had established itself at Dampus; the York Legion, which formed the right wing, occupied the woods of Delval and was exposed to the fire of the Miton post. The English were masters of the whole plain. On the fourth day after their landing they raised against the town a battery of four 24-pounders and a howitzer. After a cannonade of less than an hour, Major Greem delivered an assault on Fort Laroche and was repulsed with loss by Commander Dupuche. The third battalion of the Legion of the West made a vigorous sortie, overthrew the English and carried off two of their pieces of cannon; on another side the cavalry charged the York Legion, which was pursued as far as the landing place of the Bossan plantation. At nightfall, 2,000 men of European troops, coming out of Port-Républicain, debouched into the savanna of Dampus. The reinforced English were preparing to deliver a general assault on the place the next day at daybreak, when they stopped a courier coming from the South whose dispatches announced that Rigaud had arrived at Petit-Goâve at the head of imposing forces. On the night of 21 to 22 March, General Forbes raised the siege and withdrew to Port-Républicain.