Saint-Marc. Rallying point of the expedition; Christophe enters with Vernet

Christophe left Le Cap and sent orders to the 4th, in garrison at La Ferrière, to make its way to Milot and wait for him there. When he reached that town he severely reproached this corps for having put itself at the head of a riot in the Artibonite, when it should have thought only of avenging the Emperor murdered by the brigands of Port-au-Prince. The soldiers clamored to march against the citizens of the second division of the West and swore to annihilate Port-au-Prince, which from then on Christophe began to call Port-aux-Crimes. General Vernet received orders to move with the 14th from Les Gonaïves to Saint-Marc, where all the troops of the expedition were to assemble.

Christophe went to Marchand, where he had several officers of doubtful loyalty arrested, among others a former aide-de-camp of Dessalines named Manuel. He also had Generals Dartiguenave and Cangé arrested; the first was taken to Crête-Rouge, in the North, where he was executed; the second was shot not far from Marchand. He entered Saint-Marc on 26 December 1806, accompanied by Vernet. The 7th demi-brigade and the dragoons of the plain of the Artibonite set out for the Arcahaie. He arrived there himself in the night of the 27th to the 28th, and at once had arrested the battalion commander Flambert, the captain of the port Jean Toussaint Cortad, and the town adjutants Bonhomme and Léonore, together with a host of other officers in whom he had no confidence.