Santiago. Capitulates to Moyse; Pageot given command

During this interval General Moyse, having set out from the Rivière du Massacre at the head of more than 3,000 men, reached the river of Guayubín, twenty leagues from Santiago. General Pageot, who commanded the advance guard of this division, discovered on the other side of the river a hundred Spanish militiamen under the orders of one Don Francisco Reyes. The latter was preparing to enter into a parley with the French when a musket shot went off from the ranks of his soldiers. The troops under Moyse’s orders at once replied with a volley of musketry, and the fight began. After a quarter of an hour of fairly brisk fire on both sides, the Spaniards took flight and withdrew to the Sabana Grande de Maho, ten leagues from Santiago. There three hundred volunteers were already assembled in an entrenched camp under the orders of the cavalry captain Don Domingo Pérez. General Moyse attacked them with impetuosity. After withstanding his shock for half an hour, they were compelled to take flight, yielding to superior numbers, and left on the field of battle a cavalry captain named Don Cayetano Rasón. They withdrew to Santiago. On 11 January 1801 General Moyse reached the walls of that place; the next day Lieutenant-Colonel Don Pérez Guerra opened its gates to him after an honorable capitulation. Moyse entrusted the command of the town to General Pageot and continued his march on Santo Domingo.