Lamarre is killed at bastion no. 4 of the Môle at five in the afternoon.

This disastrous event occurred on 16 July, at five o’clock in the afternoon.

Honoré, his captain aide-de-camp, took up the body and had it carried to Fort Georges, then headquarters. It is admirable to relate that from bastion no. 4, where the hero had met his death, to the place where the body was laid, despite the sobs of the soldiers, the greatest discipline reigned in all the posts. After presenting arms, each turned his face back toward the enemy, more resolved than ever to repel its attacks and to avenge the death of the great captain.

Éveillard had the heart of Lamarre extracted, embalmed, placed in a lead box and deposited on board the Centaure. All these operations, so painful, were accomplished by ten o’clock in the evening. The rest of the glorious remains was at once interred in the fort itself (1). The next day, the detonations of the artillery of the batteries of the stronghold and of the fleet, with which mingled those of the posts occupied by the enemy, and the flag of the forts hoisted at half-mast in both camps, announced that the Black race had just lost one of its noble defenders (2).