The Cul-de-Sac plain. Dessalines left it for the North.

Meanwhile Dessalines did not let the ardor of his troops slacken. After granting them eleven days of rest at Port-au-Prince, he announced to them his plan to go and attack Le Cap. He left the plain of the Cul-de-Sac on 28 vendémiaire, Year 12, having entrusted the command of the second division of the West to General Pétion. On 8 brumaire (31 October) the 3rd demi-brigade, the 4th, the 11th and the 20th set out from the Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite and reached Les Gonaïves in the middle of the night. The next day Dessalines reviewed them. The same day they left for the Carrefour du Limbé, where all the picked troops of the South, the West, the Artibonite and the North were to assemble. But the division of the South, under the orders of General Geffrard, did not even reach Port-au-Prince. As soon as it arrived at Grand-Goâve, word came that a revolt against Dessalines’s authority had just broken out in the mornes of Jacmel. General Pétion informed the general-in-chief, who ordered Geffrard to go and stifle it, and then to occupy the countryside of Jacmel until the end of the campaign undertaken against Le Cap. Geffrard entered the mornes of Jacmel, dispersed the rebels, who were few in number, and arrested their principal chiefs, who were former partisans of Lamour Dérance. Order was restored on every side.