Tiburon. Lacroix’s flotilla captured there by the Solebay.

Toussaint ordered the commander of the republican squadron, Lieutenant Lacroix of the navy, to go and blockade Les Cayes. Lacroix, aboard the state schooner le Vengeur, set out with his flotilla. On 26 August he arrived off Cape Tiburon and dropped anchor. An English ship of 32 guns, the Solebay, Captain Poyntz, attacked and captured him, together with the vessels under his orders. There were four of them, manned by 520 men: l’Egyptien of 20 guns, le Vengeur of 16 guns, a corvette of 18, and a brig of 16. These ships, taken to Kingston in Jamaica, were condemned and sold. Toussaint sent a flag of truce to Jamaica charged with reclaiming these vessels, on the ground, he said, that they had not been armed against the British flag but against the rebels of the South, and that all civilized peoples ought to agree to crush rebels. His efforts were fruitless. The English governor had him answered that these vessels bore the French flag and were consequently good prize.