Harty takes the Platons and slaughters those left in the camp
Polvérel resolved to drive them back: he gave them a rendezvous on the Smith habitation. They all came there, abandoning their entrenched camp of the Platons, full of confidence in the loyalty of the national civil commissioner. While the latter negotiated with them, Lieutenant Colonel Harty, at the head of a battalion, reached the Platons and crossed without obstacle the fine river of Fond-Palmiste that flows at the foot of the camp. He found there only old men, women and children. These unfortunates were disemboweled with bayonet thrusts; the infants at the breast had their skulls broken against the rocks; the old women were hurled into the abysses, and the young girls were raped and slaughtered. It was in this way that Harty made himself master of the Platons on 12 January 1793.
Rouzier tells this under the entry PLATONS (les).