Santo Domingo (the Spanish side). Declared French territory by Boyé under the treaty of Basel and outside the capitulation.

Adjutant-general Bazelais, following the instructions he had received, asked Rochambeau whether, by virtue of the treaty just concluded, the French would not be bound to evacuate the city of Santo Domingo. Rochambeau ordered Boyé to answer General Dessalines on this matter. General Boyé, in a letter dated 28 brumaire, expressed himself on the Spanish part as follows: “This territory cannot be considered Spanish, since it was ceded to France by the treaty of Basel, and no later treaty has revoked this cession made by the king of Spain. On this principle, which cannot be contested, the French who occupy that part can be considered neither as Spaniards nor as auxiliaries of a foreign power, since there everything is French, territory, troops and inhabitants. The troops belonging directly to the French army who are in the former Spanish part cannot be included in the capitulation signed yesterday, since it relates solely to the evacuation of Le Cap.”