Léogane. Laplume escapes there from Petit-Goâve.

On 18 June 1799 Faubert, at the head of a battalion of the 2nd regiment, reached the ramparts of Petit-Goâve at daybreak in the deepest silence. He entered the town, surprised the shore fort and took it after a slight engagement with a battalion of the 11th. At the same time Delva, an officer entirely devoted to Rigaud, was raising the cultivators of the surrounding country and came at their head to assail the town. General Laplume was taken prisoner in the fortification. But a young officer named Eloy Boudeau, who appeared devoted to Rigaud’s cause, shot down one of Faubert’s soldiers with a pistol, spread the greatest disorder in the fort by crying treason, and during the tumult favored the escape of Laplume, who, having thrown himself from the ramparts into the ditch, reached a boat and made his way to Léogane. The garrison of Petit-Goâve, made up of several detachments of the 8th and the 11th, abandoned the town and fell back on the Tapion, the blokaus, Thausin and Grand-Goâve. Maçon, lieutenant-colonel in the 8th, who had been won over to Rigaud’s party, had refused to fire on Faubert’s troops. Faubert gave the town of Petit-Goâve over to plunder.