Brigade commander Dauzy, battalion commander Cyprès and captain Camus, officers of Hédouville, were killed in an ambush Gabart laid for them on Toussaint’s order.

Before the effervescence, for which Hédouville (naive man!) did not foresee an explosion, above all one so sudden, this agent had given order to return to the North to Brigade Commander Dauzy, to Battalion Commander Abraham Cyprès and to Captain Camus, whom he had sent into the South to serve under Rigaud during the end of the war with the English; the first was to go and take command of the Môle. But these officers, young, handsome and unfortunate, were surprised on the road by the storm: and Toussaint, imagining, in his suspicious policy, that they were charged with proofs of some machination between Rigaud and Hédouville against him, had an ambush laid for them by Gabart (1), between Mont-Rouis and Saint-Marc, at Ravine-à-Sables, in which they perished on 29 vendémiaire (20 October) (2). It is claimed that on receiving Gabart’s report, Toussaint, after reading it, tore it up, saying THAT IN SUCH A MATTER ONE MADE NONE (3).