Boutillier. Republican camp on the summit of the mountain of the Hôpital, taken by Peyster.

Simcoe, having learned, contrary to his expectation, that Toussaint had penetrated into the plain of the Cul-de-Sac, entrusted its command to the Baron de Montalembert. Colonel Dessources, on the day of his arrival, entered the mountain of the Hôpital on the side of Fourmi and met several ambushes, which he carried. The English division reached Fourmi without having suffered great losses. The Republicans held two camps established on the summit of the mountain of the Hôpital, one at Boutillier, the other at Saint-Laurent, to the right and left of Fourmi and a league from it on either side. Dessources resolved to seize these two positions. He sent Colonel Peyster against Boutillier, and Peyster drove the enemy out of it; but the camp of Saint-Laurent was more vigorously defended; the English lost there Major Ponchet, who was killed while charging at the head of the troops that had come from Jérémie. The camp was carried only with artillery. As the attack on Saint-Laurent had been long and stubborn, Dessources put off to another day the attack on the Republican battery raised against the fort of Grenier.