Rateau house. The men of color met here and named Beauvais captain-general.

The municipality of Port-au-Prince disarmed those who were in the town and drove them out of it. They spread through the countryside and met on 21 August, the eve of the insurrection in the North, at the Rateau house near Port-au-Prince, and named as captain-general Beauvais, who was then at Mirebalais, an experienced man who had fought in the war of Independence of the United States under the Comte d’Estaing. Rigaud, who had also fought in the war on the continent, was named colonel.