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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Gen. Toussaint Louverture, commander of French troops in St. Domingo, plans to travel to the Cape to demand the Commission disarm small privateers preying on American vessels, vowing to protect Americans and ensure payment for their cargoes, as he recognizes their necessity.
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Gen. Toussaint Louverture, commander of the French troops at St. Domingo, in his return to Gonaives after his victory at Mirabelais, in conversation with a gentleman now in this city, said he was going to the Cape in a few days, with an intention to insist on the Commission at that place calling in and disarming all the small privateers and stopping the depredations lately carried on against the Americans, whom he was further determined should be protected, and their cargoes duly paid for, as he "was sensible they could not do without them."
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St. Domingo
Event Date
June 17.
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plans to disarm privateers, stop attacks on americans, protect them, and ensure payment for cargoes.
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After victory at Mirabelais, Toussaint Louverture returns to Gonaives and states he will go to the Cape to insist the Commission call in and disarm small privateers, halt recent depredations against Americans, protect them, and pay for their cargoes, noting they cannot do without them.