Trianon. Carried by d’Henin against Pierre Parent’s cultivators.

General Boudet had taken the field at the head of all the troops under his orders. Pamphile de Lacroix, adjudant-general, recovered from the wound he had received in the attack on Port-Républicain, was second in command of this fine and formidable division. The French 56th demi-brigade and the 13th colonial formed its vanguard, under the orders of the adjudant-general d’Henin. The French, making for the Mirebalais, suffered the greatest fatigues in the defiles of the mountains of the Pensez-y-Bien. The heat was overwhelming, although it was the first days of March. The Black and mixed-race soldiers of the 13th colonial, spurred on by Pétion, climbed these mountains with agility and kept up their courage. On 12 Ventôse (3 March), d’Henin reached the post of Trianon, a position admirably fortified by nature, which was held by one hundred cultivators of the Mirebalais. The Indigenous Pierre Parent, a Black man, commanded the insurgents of that district, whom Rochambeau had already dispersed on entering the Mirebalais. To avoid the ambushes laid along his path, d’Henin turned the heights of the position and penetrated into the gorges of the Trianon. As soon as the cultivators saw the enemy, they struck up songs and flung themselves upon two pieces of cannon that were pouring grapeshot on the redoubt. The 56th covered this battery with a brisk fusillade. The insurgents came to die upon the guns, cut down by the musketry. The French, bayonets forward, broke into the redoubt and slaughtered all they could reach. D’Henin lost sixty grenadiers in this skirmish.