Les Carcasses. Rigaud’s flotilla of munitions and provisions is destroyed there by three English frigates under Rickets.

Rigaud, whom no reverse discouraged, prepared to lay regular siege to Les Irois. The English were not unaware that he intended to go on and attack Jérémie. Brigadier Churchill therefore made every effort to thwart his plan. Rigaud had assembled in the bay of Les Carcasses a flotilla laden with munitions and provisions, which was to follow the army along the shore. But just as he was about to set out, the frigates Magicienne, Régulus and Fortune, commanded by Captain Rickets, attacked the Republican barges and destroyed them after a fight of more than an hour (24 April). Rigaud, having lost all his munitions and provisions, found himself compelled to return to Tiburon.