Montalet. Dessalines enters by it.

The next day, 17 Vendémiaire, at seven in the morning, the independent army, marching in three columns, made its triumphal entry into Port-au-Prince by the Portail Saint-Joseph and the gates of Léogane and of Montalet. Dessalines, wearing a red coat covered with gold and breeches of the same color, advanced by the Montalet gate, with Pétion on his right and Gabart on his left. He was followed by all his field artillery. General Pétion, plainly dressed, wore a black plume in his hat. The Indigenous army, made up of almost naked soldiers, contrasted in the minds of the inhabitants with the European garrison which, two days before, had embarked magnificently equipped. Dessalines went to the Government Palace amid the cries of joy of the whole Indigenous population. The troops were ordered to respect property and to observe the strictest discipline. Nevertheless, toward the middle of the day, Colonel Bédouet, a man of color, who had been named commandant of the place, warned General Pétion, commander of the 2nd division of the West, that the colonel of the 12th, Thomas Marie-Jeanne, at the head of a great number of soldiers, chiefly of the 4th, had broken by force into the shops of the Rue des Fronts-Forts and was giving himself to pillage.