...crucifix Leclerc swore that he should be faithfully protected, and that the island should be free. As the French general glanced along the line of his splendidly equipped troops, and saw, opposite, Toussaint 's ragged, ill-armed followers, he said to him, L'Ouverture, had you continued the war, where could you have got arms? I would have taken yours, was the Spartan reply. [Cheers.] He went down to ...