Aquin. Evacuated by Riché and Geffrard and taken by Augustin Cyprien and Dugué Zamor.

A few days after the combat fought at Aquin against the bands of Dugué Zamor, news of the revolution of 3 May reached generals Riché and Geffrard, who received at the same time the order of the new government to evacuate Aquin. A deputation presided over by colonel Chardavoine had brought this order; it went on afterward to Saint-Louis du Sud, to Dugué Zamor, to whom it notified the elevation of Guerrier to the presidency and the authorization to take Aquin. Geffrard and Riché left that town on 7 May with all their troops and made first for the bridge of Miragoâne, but, learning that it must already be occupied by Jeannot Moline, they passed by the Fond des Blancs and by the Mombin to avoid an encounter with the insurgents, and arrived at Petit-Goâve, where they placed themselves under the authority of the new governor.

Augustin Cyprien and Dugué Zamor marched on Aquin, of which they took possession on 7 May at 6 o’clock in the evening. Dugué Zamor had Madame Descotière arrested, she having shown herself strongly opposed to the rising of Acaau; he had her flogged in the public square, took her by force, and at last gave her over to the brutality of his soldiers. Rapes and pillage were committed on every side; the piquets were all the more furious and inexorable because they had lost a very great number of their own in the town of Aquin. General Augustin Cyprien wished to have the officers of the national guard shot by the grenadiers of the 15th regiment, but he was happily turned from this design. (*)(br)