Dessalines attacks Saint-Marc

Dessalines resolved to besiege Saint-Marc. He had the Pivert gate and the Dusallier gate and all the posts that the French had established outside the town occupied. He attacked the town on 2 November at eight o’clock in the evening, on all points at once. St.Marc was surrounded by a wide and deep ditch, bordered by walls bristling with cannon. Generals Cantin and Freycinet moved about everywhere, sustaining the courage of the garrison and of the national guard by their contempt for death. They were energetically seconded by the squadron leaders Répussard, Aussenac Savary and Riper. The fire of artillery and musketry lit up the town all night. At daybreak a frigate moored near the shore vomited death into the ranks of the assailants, who were forced to move away from the ramparts. Dessalines fell back on the habitation Marchand. Quentin made a sortie against him, but he was repulsed.

Rouzier tells this under the entry ST.-MARC.