Acul de Léogane. French troops landed there

When Fort Ça-Ira was taken, the French who had escaped the massacre had thrown themselves into the barges in the roadstead, had reached Port-Républicain and had announced there that Pétion had arrived in the plain of Léogane. General Brunet at once ordered an expedition sent to the relief of Léogane. In the night of 30 Frimaire the frigate Franchise, the brig Lodi and the schooners Tricolore and Nanine, loaded with European troops and national guards, sailed from Port-Républicain. At daybreak the squadron, commanded by Captain Jurrien, having reached the roadstead of Léogane, anchored broadside to Fort Ça-Ira. It opened a brisk and steady fire while the French troops landed at the Acul, a cove not far from the fort. At the same time the garrison of the town, under the orders of Laucoste, made a sortie against Sanglaou and Gérin by the road that leads to the seashore. There was so much skill and concert in the maneuvers of the French troops that the Indigenous, attacked in front and rear, were overthrown on every side. Sanglaou was driven from Fort Ça-Ira and pursued by a battalion of marines and several companies of the 86th. The Indigenous, hard pressed by the enemy, could not halt at the Petit camp, although Gérin showed brilliant valor in trying to rally them there. General Pétion then advanced onto the field of battle at the head of a battalion of national guards commanded by a Black officer, Isidore, rallied the soldiers of the 13th and restored the fight. Energetically seconded by the battalion commanders Jean-Louis François and Moreau, he cut the French column in two: one part was driven back into the town; the other, thrown into the marshes of the Petit plantation, perished to the last man under the fusillade.