Thouin. Taken by Montauban.

The next day (25 October) Dessalines detached from his army a battalion of the 7th under the orders of Commandant Montauban and sent it to attack a weak position held by cultivators three leagues from Bellevue. Captain Marinier, at the head of 400 men, discovered the Rigaudins at daybreak. On perceiving the enemy they fell back on the post of Thouin, where they awaited him. But they were overthrown. Montauban then took possession of that fort, where some officers of the North had been taken prisoner. Colonel Charles Bélair made himself master of all the camps set up parallel to Fort Bellevue, which formed the cordon of the troops of the South. Dessalines had all these fortifications demolished and burned. He entrusted the guard of the Milton camp to the militiamen of Léogane and joined to his army corps the 7th and 9th demi-brigades, which he had launched against the rear guard of the troops of the South; to hold in check Rigaud’s army, entrenched at Grand-Goâve, he fortified the Papette camp.