Pont Drouet. Augustin Cyprien’s column passes it on the way to the Fonfrède crossroads.

Acaau had taken precedence over Dugué Zamor and Jean Claude, and was acknowledged by the bands as general-in-chief of the people’s demands. In the same night of the 3rd he continued his march and halted at the carrefour Fonfrède at nine o’clock. On the next day, the 4th, he addressed a letter to the municipal council of Les Cayes making known to it the motives of the insurgents’ taking up of arms. It was Holy Week; the municipal council had him answered by word of mouth that, because of the holy days, the population being given over to its devotions, no serious business could be attended to. Nevertheless it at once made arrangements, in concert with the military authority, to fight the insurgents. Two columns were formed on the spot, one composed of troops of the line under the orders of general Augustin Cyprien, the other of national guards, commanded by general Pierre Colin; they marched out of the town at once and found themselves facing the insurgents the same day, the 4th, at eleven o’clock in the morning, at the carrefour Fonfrède, having passed, the first by the pont Drouet, and the second by the place called Bambous Madame Jérôme. Battle was joined; general Augustin had several round shot fired upon the bands, who came at him with their pikes; after an hour of fighting he was put to utter rout, leaving dead and wounded on the field; he returned to Les Cayes in the greatest disorder, having lost the only piece of cannon he had, which was directed by the colonel of artillery Thomas Presse. General Pierre Colin sustained the shock of the insurgents with resolution; but immediately after the rout of Augustin Cyprien he fell back and likewise returned to Les Cayes without having been broken. It was his bearing that prevented Acaau from entering Les Cayes pell-mell with the fugitives. Acaau’s bands had lost a certain number killed and wounded, although a few days later he admitted to no more than three wounded and one dead.