Fort National. Its guard won over, it receives Dalzon’s detachments on the night of the rising.

On the night of 9 September, he went to the various quarters of the troops of the Artibonite in garrison at Port-au-Prince, and, claiming to bear an order from the Place, drew fairly numerous detachments of them to the Fort National, whose guard had been won over. General Guerrier, on learning of this movement, ordered his horse saddled, ready to present himself to the regiments as soon as the Fort National should fire its first cannon shot. The commandant Jean Pierre Mercure, wearing his decorations and armed, rode to the Poste-Marchand, came to an understanding with colonel Mathurin, and went up to the Fort National, where he met general Dalzon, who gave him command of the left of the detachment that was to fall upon the town and assail Hérard Rivière in his residence.