Boudet’s grenadiers are routed at the Crête-à-Pierrot and Dugua renews the assault

Thunderstruck by the artillery, the French were thrown back, and disorder came into their ranks. The indigènes then came out of the fort and pursued them with the bayonet at their backs. Blushing at their defeat, Boudet’s grenadiers turned on them with fury; but the indigènes threw themselves into the ditches, laying bare the assailants whom the fire of the redoubts crushed. To complete the misfortune of the French, the cavalry of Toussaint’s guard of honor, commanded by Morisset and Monpoint, which was standing not far from the fort, dashed into the plain, charged them with fury, broke their ranks, put them in full rout, sabered them and scattered them far off. It would have been the end of this division had General Dugua, who had replaced Debelle, not advanced about eleven o’clock in the morning to support it, coming out of Saint-Marc with Captain General Leclerc. Dugua rallied the fugitives. General Leclerc had come in person to direct the operations of the siege. General Pamphile de Lacroix replaced in command General Boudet, who during the action had had his heel pierced by a…

Rouzier tells this under the entry Crête-à-Pierrot (la).