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1803-10-09

Lavalette evacuated Port-au-Prince, and Dessalines, Pétion and Gabart entered the town the same day.

Haitian

Dessalines sent Cangé the order to cease fire. On 13 vendémiaire (6 October), Lavalette sent to Turgeau, as a hostage for his good faith, adjutant-commandant Andrieu, who, on {{1 brumaire of the preceding year|23 October 1802}}, had come so near to arresting Dessalines himself: such are the sports of fortune. Dessalines, like a man of wit, showed himself kindly toward his guest. He sent, for his part, adjutant-general Bonnet to Lavalette. On the 15th the hostages were returned, and on the morning of the 16th Lavalette and Lux (2), embarked on the ship the *Aimable*, of Bordeaux, which carried the 5th light, weighed anchor, accompanied by several schooners and boats carrying the rest of the garrison and a great number of white residents (1). Dessalines, Pétion and Gabart, who had lately come to join them, made their entry the same day by the Petit-Paradis gate, Cangé by that of Léogane, and Larose by that of Saint-Joseph.

Source  ·  p. 236 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 3 (Paris: chez l'auteur, 1855), p. 236; English translation, Rasanblaj.