Cappois was arrested at Fossés-de-Limonade by Romain, Dartiguenave and Gérard and shot at Christophe’s order.

But when the Emperor had returned to Marchand from his last journey in the South, Christophe and Cappois were living in a discord more flagrant than ever; remarks that always bordered on insult were faithfully carried to each by their respective flatterers. Christophe at last denounced Cappois formally to the Emperor as plotting against the safety of the throne. H. M., who had never been seen so full of anxiety and so given to violence as at the period we have now reached, sent the order to be rid of Cappois. This unhappy general had just suppressed at Laxabon some stirrings of the Spaniards of that frontier in favor of the French who were still in possession of Santo-Domingo, and was making his way toward the Cap, the chief town of the division, where it is even probable that he had been summoned by the general in chief, when, on 8 October, he met at the town of Fossés-de-Limonade the generals Romain, Dartiguenave and Gérard. These begged him to step down from his carriage, under pretext of taking some refreshment. And Cappois had no sooner done so than, to his great anger, he saw himself surrounded by a detachment and disarmed, without his aides-de-camp Bottex, Placide Lebrun and Belair, or his guides, making the least attempt to oppose the violence of which he was the object.

Shame on those officers and on those guides!

Cappois, the unfortunate Cappois, was ignominiously bound to a tree and, on the order of Christophe’s hired assassins, was pitilessly shot (1)!