Fort National fires alarm guns and the whites of Port-Républicain are massacred

At the landing of the French army at the Lamentin, on 5 February 1802, Fort National fired three cannon shots of alarm. At this signal, all the whites who had been arrested at Port-Républicain were taken to the Savane Valembrun (Champ de Mars) and to Saint-Martin, where they were pitilessly massacred. Lamartinière evacuated Fort National in the night that followed and threw himself into the plain of the Cul-de-Sac. Had he resolved to defend it with as much vigor as he had fought at the fort of Léogane (Lerebours), General Boudet would have lost half of his army. See: Marchand (Poste).

Rouzier tells this under the entry Fort National.