On the 20th of February, the flank companies of the THIRTEENTH were engaged in the storming of the post of _L’Acal_, situate six miles from Leogane. Part of the force designed for this service proceeded by water, and the remainder by land: the whole under Lieut.-Colonel Whitelocke. Contrary winds prevented the troops in transports taking part in the attack, but the other division captured the fort in gallant style; the soldiers climbing the hill, exposed to a heavy fire of grape and musketry, and their progress impeded by felled trees placed in all directions, and capturing the works with fixed bayonets. After obtaining possession of the fort, two officers and thirteen soldiers were killed by the explosion of a magazine. The only loss sustained by the THIRTEENTH foot was one private soldier killed; one serjeant, and one private soldier wounded. Major Spencer again distinguished himself. The flank companies of the regiment were employed, under Brigadier-General Whyte, in the expedition against _Port-au-Prince_, the capital of the island: the troops employed in this service arrived in the bay on the 31st of May, and the capture of this place was accomplished in four days, with little loss. A malignant fever broke out in the town soon afterwards, and the British lost forty officers and six hundred soldiers by disease, within two months after the surrender of the place. Lieut.-Colonel Whitelocke had the rank of colonel in the expedition, and Major Spencer that of lieut.-colonel; they both distinguished themselves, and their conduct was commended in the strongest terms in Brigadier-General Whyte’s despatch. Captain James Grant, of the THIRTEENTH regiment, commanded the garrison of _Fort Bizzeton_, which consisted of one hundred and twenty men. Between four and five o’clock on the morning of the 5th of December, three columns of the enemy, amounting to about two thousand men, approached the fort with great silence, and arrived under the works before they were discovered; but the garrison was under arms; it repulsed the assailants, and drove them from before the works with great loss. Major-General Sir Adam Williamson stated in his public despatch,--‘Captain Grant (THIRTEENTH), and his two lieutenants, Clunes of the Royals, and Hamilton of the twenty-second regiment, merit every attention that can be shown them. They were all three severely wounded early in the attack, but tied up their wounds and continued to defend their post. It has been a very gallant defence and does them great honor.’ [Sidenote: 1795] [Sidenote: 1796] The regiment continued actively employed in St. Domingo in the year 1795; but the climate proved particularly injurious to the health of the officers and soldiers, and its losses from disease were so severe that, in 1796, it returned to England a skeleton. [Sidenote: 1797]