Boisblanc. Moyse reaches it after escaping from Fort-Liberté.

The next day, 17 October (26 Vendémiaire), General Moyse, followed by three dragoons, presented himself at the gates of the town; he found them shut. Colonel Grandet had them opened for him. Moyse went at once to his house to learn exactly what had happened the day before. But Manigat wrote to him that, as delegate of the Agent of the Directory, he had the armed force under his orders, and invited him to come and receive instructions from him, holding him personally responsible for any disorders that might break out in the town. Moyse answered that he did not refuse to join with the authorities in maintaining order, but that he wished to speak with him of the danger that still threatened the town, since he saw cannon still loaded with grapeshot trained on the parade ground, and the national guard, as well as the European troops, remaining under arms; that for the rest he would guarantee the tranquillity of the town if the troops withdrew to their respective quarters. Manigat refused him the interview he asked. He ordered him to declare himself against Toussaint Louverture, who was the agent of the English, and to carry out the instructions that would be given him. Moyse refused to take up arms against the general-in-chief. Then Manigat accused him of wishing to have all the whites massacred and of having cried “To arms!” when he came back into the town; he removed him from his functions and ordered that he be hunted down and taken dead or alive. Moyse was forced to flee; he had only time to throw himself into the sea and reach the mangliers of the roadstead, from which, through a thousand dangers, he made his way to Boisblanc. Colonel Adrien and the battalion commander l’Africain were sent to the Cap by sea, and Hédouville had them put in irons aboard a frigate.