Fort Boyer (Les Cayes). Acaau establishes his headquarters there.

He took possession of the Quatre Chemins, at the entrance of the town, the same day, 4 April, at three o’clock in the afternoon. Then he moved to Fort Boyer, where he established his headquarters. His dress was a straw hat full of holes, a torn jacket of colette, trousers of colette in the same state, a great machete, pistols fastened to his belt, and sapattes. (*) His two lieutenants, Dugué Zamor and Jean Claude, were dressed like him, and his men were either in rags or nearly naked.