Mariani. Pétion lands there, four leagues from Port-au-Prince

Toward two in the afternoon, while Yayou was impatiently awaiting the enemy, word came that Pétion had landed at Mariani, four leagues from Port-au-Prince. The adjudant-general Blanchet came at the same time to the Portail Saint-Joseph and congratulated Yayou on not having thought of evacuating the town to fall back on Léogane. Yayou told him that he would take that resolution only if, having tried fortune once more, he found her against him.