Boudet’s division reaches Les Verrettes and is fired on at night

On the approach of the French, on 24 February 1802, Charles Bélair reduced the bourg to ashes. On 9 March the Boudet division, coming out of Mirebalais, assembled at Verrettes. It found no shelter there. The indigènes had drawn up the whole white population on the parade ground, and it was bayoneted without distinction of age or sex. The French saw with horror these corpses, which the heat of life had not yet entirely left. They gave full vent to their indignation, and swore a war to the death against Toussaint. They bivouacked and placed their baggage and their cavalry in the center of the square battalions. Toward midnight they received the gunfire of some indigène horsemen who were quartered not far from Verrettes. They answered it, but by daylight the enemy had disappeared. Charles Bélair wished to disturb their sleep because the European who is deprived of sleep under the torrid zone, after fatigue, is soon struck by yellow fever and succumbs.

Rouzier tells this under the entry VERRETTES [les].