Larivoire. Evacuated by the Rigaudins on the night of 22 to 23 April.

Toussaint, for his part, while General Agé was preparing to go to Santo Domingo, had ordered Dessalines to continue the campaign and to penetrate into the department of the South. On 22 April 1800 Dessalines’s troops set out. The Black general plunged into the gorges of the mountains, guided by Commandant Conflant, resolved, before reaching the South, to seize Baynet, Grand-Goâve and Petit-Goâve, the last three points still in Rigaud’s power in the West. At the head of a numerous army he will crush in turn the small army of the South, scattered over a wide extent of country. He crossed the Grande Colline and left on his left the post of Larivoire, which the enemy held. Having reached the foot of the mountain of Grand-Goâve, he climbed the Grande Colline again, turned Larivoire and camped on the highroad of Baynet. At sunset the soldiers of the 4th demi-brigade discovered an unfinished fortification on the summit of a morne not far from the highroad. They themselves asked to go and attack it. Dessalines, profiting by their ardor, launched them at the post and followed them with the 10th demi-brigade. Before they reached the post they fell into an ambush, which they carried without burning a priming, although the fort had fired two balls at them. When they reached the fortification they were met by brisk discharges of musketry and artillery. Colonel Dommage, at the head of the 1st battalion of the 4th, rushed to the assault; his grenadiers followed him, entered the redoubt through an embrasure in which a 2-pounder was mounted, and took it. The fugitives were pursued far, and much ammunition fell into Dessalines’s power.

During the night of 22 to 23 April the Rigaudins evacuated the camp of Larivoire. Unable to make for Baynet, whose surroundings were flooded with Dessalines’s masses, they fell back on Grand-Goâve by the Grande Colline.