Lamartinière abandoned his redoubt at the Crête-à-Pierrot and rejoined the main position, from which the garrison later broke out at night through Rochambeau’s lines.

Meanwhile Lamartinière, unable any longer to answer the fire of Rochambeau, abandons his redoubt in the night of 2 to 3 germinal (23 to 24 March), and in spite of an engagement occasioned by a mistake, he comes to bring to the main position his assurance and his courage. The garrison, already exhausted by hunger and thirst, those most imperious needs of nature, reduced to chewing bullets in order to feed on the muddy paste of their grinding, was threatened with an assault for the following day; the fascines were already ready. Then Lamartinière, taking from Magny the first authority, which always belongs to audacity, repeated what Pétion had so happily carried out at the sortie from Jacmel. He takes advantage of the darkness of the night, marches in the greatest silence, and falls upon the headquarters occupied by Rochambeau, whom he would undoubtedly have captured or killed, had Rochambeau, awakened with a start by the musket shots fired at his outpost, not had the time to throw himself into the neighboring wood. Lamartinière and Magny had not lost half of their companions in this melee. They left to the French only their dead and their wounded, a few white gunners, the band of the guard of honor, a powder magazine which they had not wished to blow up so as not to awaken the attention of the enemy, a few muskets, and their artillery (1). They made their junction with Dessalines on the summit of the morne du Calvaire.