The Cul-de-Sac plain. Partly burned by Christophe on raising the siege

Christophe, despairing of taking the town and fearing insurrections in the North and the Artibonite at his rear, raised the siege two days later. On 8 January, after burning part of the plain of the Cul-de-Sac, he took the road to L’Arcahaie. General Yayou, full of joy at the enemy’s retreat, said with satisfaction that he had indeed foretold that it would not take long to come to know Christophe, *a man inflexible and of blood. At the battle of Sibert and during the siege of Port-au-Prince together, several hundred men had been lost on the two sides.