They entered into the contest, therefore, with their usual vigour, and their usual cruelty.

It was in vain that the Corsicans addressed a most affecting memorial to the court of Versailles; that remorseless government persisted in its flagitious project.

They poured in troops; dressed a part of them like the people of the country, by which means they deceived and destroyed many of the patriots; cut down the standing corn, the vines, and the olives; set fire to the villages, and hung all the most able and active men who fell into their hands.
A war of this kind may be carried on with success against a country so small and so thinly peopled as Corsica.

Having reduced the island to perfect servitude, which they called peace, the French withdrew their forces.

As soon as they were gone, men, women, and boys rose at once against their oppressors.