Itis. Dessalines marches on it.

Governor Laveaux wrote to Toussaint Louverture to secure against the enemy the districts that formed the cordon of the Artibonite, and to march against La Grande-Rivière, which the Spaniards infested. On 7 Nivôse, Year 3 (27 December 1794), Toussaint sent a special courier to Villate, commanding general at Le Cap, to ask him to forward his instructions to Thomas André, commandant of Limonade, to Pénel, commandant of the Trou, and to Noël Arthaud. These three officers were asked to attack the enemy on 30 December, so as to make a diversion favorable to Toussaint Louverture’s operations. The heavy rains that had fallen allowed Toussaint to reach the Dondon only on the afternoon of the 30th. He resolved to attack the next day. He formed his army into five columns: the first, under Commandant Moyse, passed by the Grand Giles to attack the advanced posts of the village of La Grande-Rivière; the second, under Commandant Charles, was to take the camp Baujoin; the third, commanded by Noël, received orders to occupy the camp Buquet, situated on the Montagne Noire; the fourth, under Lieutenant-Colonels Jérôme and Flevand, was to attack the camp Vauxel. He commanded the fifth in person. On 30 December, during the night, the army moved off at every point. Toussaint, after reaching the Spanish savanna, sent a company commanded by Jean-François Dupuy by way of the Montagne Noire, and another, under Paparel, by the Ravine à Mariane. Lieutenant-Colonel Dessalines marched on the post of Itis across the Pignon. Having launched his columns against every point the enemy held, Toussaint himself marched against the camp Flamin. Before reaching it he came upon a fort, which he attacked and carried by assault after a single volley. The column leaders Moyse, Charles, Noël, Jérôme, Flavand and Dessalines had already overthrown the enemy on every side and driven him back into the camp Flamin. When the whole army was assembled near that redoubt, Toussaint ordered Dessalines to attack. The other columns moved onto the Crête espagnole and assailed all the posts that protected Flamin. After a vigorous assault Dessalines carried the camp, which the Spaniards abandoned without, however, taking flight. Toussaint then carried Fort Cambron. The Spaniards, driven from the positions they held, had scattered into the woods and were harassing the Republicans sharply. To avoid ambushes, Toussaint, as soon as night fell, brought all his troops back into Flamin. The Spaniards tried to turn him. He perceived it, rode to meet them at the head of his cavalry, caught them in a narrow road, dismounted with his dragoons, took up a musket and overthrew them.