Biassou gathers 500 men at La Tannerie and threatens Le Cap

In April 1792, Biassou gathered 500 men there and threatened le Cap. In January 1793, Governor Laveaux marched against him from le Cap. This position was well fortified and reputed impregnable, surrounded by a wide and deep ditch, and armed with 14 pieces of cannon. This redoubt had been raised by the white engineers, prisoners of the enslaved, on the spot where Mr de Belzunce, former governor of the colony, had had 4 field pieces mounted. Laveaux drove the insurgents out of Milot and pursued them to the foot of the fort of the Tannerie, where they shut themselves in. They could not breach this redoubt, having only 6 field pieces, but, taking advantage of the ardor of the soldiers, he ordered the line troops to climb to the assault. They obeyed with enthusiasm, and are repulsed with loss, crushed under the grapeshot of the 14 pieces of the fortification. Biassou, sustaining the courage of his men, displayed the rarest audacity, and exposed himself on the ramparts to the greatest dangers. The volunteers of le Cap, under the orders of Dessources, attack in their turn, and march proudly…

Rouzier tells this under the entry TANNERIE (la).