admiral Parker’s squadron cannonaded Fort Ça-ira from ten in the morning to five in the evening, while Pétion held it.

On the first of germinal (21 March) Admiral Parker came up with the west wind and moored broadside before Ça-ira; at ten o’clock in the morning the cannonade began; it lasted until five in the evening. The squadron vomited upon the fort five or six thousand cannonballs (1). In the midst of the battle, Pétion sent the fiery Ogé with a detachment to Léogane to fetch ammunition, of which he was beginning to run short. Ogé, on his return, found himself surrounded by the English, who had landed at the Ester and held the high road. The young captain was little accustomed to reckon with numbers; sword in hand, bayonet forward, he cut himself a bloody passage and re-entered Ça-ira with his boxes of grapeshot. Pétion, whom nothing astonished, was nevertheless so filled with wonder at such courage that from that day he conferred on Ogé the surname of the Brave.