Rue Saint-Lazare. Advanced posts are set on the walls at its corner.

They fired the alarm with three cannon shots, and Francisco Sanchez, mounting the ramparts, harangued his companions. But they could not hoist the standard of separation, having none; one of them, Gabriel Suna, who was a storekeeper, went to his house and came back with a Haitian flag, to which there had been no time to add the white cross, as had been agreed; they hoisted it as it was, and this circumstance, a matter of pure chance, helped the success. On both sides the same flag was flying. General Desgrottes ordered a Haitian colonel to march against the Porte del Conde. This officer answered him that the national flag was hoisted there; that there could be no question of separation; that some citizens had doubtless gathered simply to set out certain grievances. The commandant of the Arsenal, Juan Santillan, seeing the same flag flying both at the Porte del Conde and at the Force, did not stir. At that same moment there reached the camp of the insurgents a man dispatched by the conspirators of Azua. This was Antoine Duverger, or Boisgency, of Haitian origin nevertheless; he came to ask for instructions, for Buenaventura Baez, in his capacity as mayor, opposed the pronunciamento at Azua, because the movement was not to take place in favor of France. Joaquim Puello at once gave him instructions for the conspirators of his district and sent him off. By ten o’clock in the morning all the country people of the surroundings had declared themselves, and several advanced posts had been established on the walls, at the corner of the rue Saint-Lazare.