English ships bombard Fort Bizoton and land 800 men at Lamentin

In the night of 1 to 2 January 1794, Commodore Ford, in the hope of winning over the inhabitants of Port-Républicain, came to anchor opposite Fort Bizoton with two English ships and a frigate. The next day Ford threatened to bombard Port-Républicain if Southonax did not surrender the place. “Begin, commodore,” Southonax replied to him, “our cannonballs are red-hot and our gunners at their posts.” The English squadron withdrew. On 1 June, the English ships Belliqueux and Sceptre moored broadside at eleven o’clock in the morning before Fort Bizoton, armed with 5 pieces of cannon and 2 mortars. Monbrun occupied this fortification with 450 men of the legion of the West. Under cover of the bombardment, the English landed at Lamentin to the number of 800, with Colonel Spencer at their head. Fort Bizoton replied only feebly to the broadsides of the English squadron. At six o’clock in the evening, the rain began to fall with such violence that the firing ceased on both sides.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Bizoton.