Christophe’s last attack on the lines of Port-au-Prince was repulsed, and he began his retreat, killing prisoners.

Christophe, encamped at Drouillard, had until then contented himself with raining a hail of shells on Port-au-Prince. But, recovered from his sort of torpor at the sight of the reinforcements that had entered the place, he ordered a fresh attack, as if to make his retreat less shameful. On the 8th his troops filed past the rear of Fort-National and came to fall simultaneously upon the Poste-Marchand, the Petite-Coupe and the fort of the Government. Repulsed with matchless intrepidity by the 13th, 15th, 16th and 17th demi-brigades, which held that line, they regained the camp of Drouillard in disorder. Then Christophe, doubtless fearing to see himself assailed there, commanded during the night the retreat on the Arcahaye. Yayou pursued him as far as Boucassin, without being able to force him to accept battle.

In this retreat Christophe, renewing his cruelties at the time of that from Santo-Domingo, burned and ravaged everything that lay in his path; not a plantation, not an {{*ajoupa*|hut of branches and leaves}} found mercy in his eyes; with this difference only, that this time he acted from his own impulse, and that he had no pretext to say that these were the properties of the Spaniards. He also put to death all those whom he suspected of sympathy with the Senate.