Battle of the Fond des Nègres plain

On 28 June 1800, Dessalines, encamped on the habitation Muzaine, while the Rigaudins were falling back from Miragoâne toward the South, learned that the enemy was occupying the plain of the Fond des Nègres. Dommage sortied from Muzaine against the Rigaudins and entered the plain of the Fond des Nègres at the head of 10,000 men in three columns. Rigaud had the imprudence to draw up in battle order with 800 men in the middle of the plain. After two hours of a bloody struggle, Rigaud, so as not to be enveloped, retreated. His cavalry, instead of protecting his retreat, took flight and reached Aquin at full gallop. The plain of the Fond des Nègres was strewn with dead. The battle had been won for an hour by the troops of the North when the 3rd regiment of the South, of 200 men, emerged onto the plain and presented itself on the battlefield. This feeble corps was suddenly enveloped and annihilated under a formidable fire. Its flags fell into the power of the enemy. The troops of Toussaint-Louverture continued their march to the end of the plain. There they discovered two camps seated…

Rouzier tells this under the entry Fond des Nègres (le).