Anse-à-Veau. Samedi Thélémaque’s troops enter it and take Acaau’s fort.

At the same time General Samedi Thélémaque (Jean-Charles) was advancing rapidly upon L’Anse-à-Veau at the head of an army dispatched from Port-au-Prince and reinforced in the arrondissement of Léogâne. On 7 March he put himself in communication with General Philippeaux, who had the alarm gun fired and prepared to second him against Acaau. The troops under the orders of Samedi Thélémaque entered L’Anse-à-Veau. The fort to which Acaau had withdrawn was closely surrounded, cannonaded, then assailed. Acaau, unable to hold it, abandoned it and threw himself into the woods; but, hunted on every side, he was reduced to blowing out his brains. At the same time there arrived at L’Anse-à-Veau a boat coming from Le Cap, which brought Acaau his nomination as commandant of the Departments of the South and of the West.