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1803-01-09

Capoix plans a night assault to seize the powder at Petit Fort

Haitian

Then Capoix left Petit Fort without firing a shot, pierced the enemy line and reached the countryside without being disturbed. He went to the Laveaux-Lapointe habitation, situated on the seashore 2 leagues from Port-de-Paix. The next day, 9 January, several vessels came and cannonaded him. A French soldier who had fallen into his power, and whom he received with humanity, informed him that the Petit Fort contained a great deal of munitions. Capoix resolved to seize it by a sudden stroke and to carry off all the powder. He ordered Jn-Louis Grand-Maison, inspector of cultivation, to have built 2 ladders 30 feet long by 4 wide, and a great number of gabions. He sent Jacques Louis to set up not far from the gates of the town and ordered him to assault Fort Pageot as soon as he heard the fire of Petit Fort. It was the middle of the night; Jn-Baptiste Catabois went to set up near Fort Laveaux, with orders to assail it on his side as soon as the attack on Petit Fort began. The Commandant Beauvoir left the Laveaux-Lapointe habitation and halted on the road to St-Louis, 100 paces from the…

Rouzier tells this under the entry PETIT FORT (le).

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 498 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 498