Blaise hands Fort Saint Joseph to the English

On 5 June 1794, Blaise, Lieutenant Colonel of the Legion of the West, handed the fort over to the English. A colonist named Béranger went there that day, and in the midst of all the whites who had called the English into the colony, he read a list of thirty enslavers, his former friends, who were, he said, republicans. He began with Messrs. Goy and Gau. He had them thrown one after the other into the ditch after having blown out their brains with his own hand, saying to each of them: “Republican, make the leap of the Tarpeian Rock.” He would thus have killed all these unfortunates who had just betrayed the fatherland, had General Whyte, arriving in the fort at 8 o’clock in the evening, not put a stop to this frightful carnage. The English general had him arrested; the next day he had a proclamation published in which he condemned his crimes. Béranger took flight; he drowned in the Voldrogue on his way to Jérémie.

Rouzier tells this under the entry SAINT JOSEPH.