Badolet’s royalists attack Delpêche’s house at Les Cayes

On 14 July 1794 a white man named Badolet demanded from Delpêche and from Harty, commander of the province, several people he had held in slavery who had been freed. It was labor lost. He put himself at the head of the royalists and of the petits blancs, supported by Mouchet, commander of the national guard, and came to assail the house of Delpêche. General Rigaud, upon whom the whites had just fired at the camp of Desrivaux, hastened to the aid of the civil commissioner. A bloody struggle began in the streets of the Cayes between the royalists and the men of color. The prisons were opened by the colonists: the town was filled with evildoers who put it to pillage. Harty drove the royalists from the center of the town. These seized the forts of the Islet and of the Tourterelle. General Rigaud, with the affranchis, attacked these two forts and on the next day, at ten o’clock in the morning, took them by assault. Badolet and Mouchet fled to Jérémie.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Cayes (les).