La Coupe. Taken by Pétion from Kerenscoff after an hour’s fighting.

General Laplume, who commanded at Léogane, ordered Adjutant-General Pétion to drive the English from the hills of La Coupe. Pétion had his headquarters at the Carrefour Masson. A strong detachment of the Legion of the West set out from Léogane, followed the Rivière-Froide and reached the heights of the Grenier plantation. Pétion then went down to La Coupe and surrounded its fort, commanded by an English officer named Kerenscoff. On 5 December 1797 he attacked it and carried it after an hour’s fighting. This success forced the English to abandon Grenier and Fourmi; Pétion took up his position at the Gros-Morne on the road to La Coupe, and Port-Républicain began to be closely invested.