Maurepas repulses Humbert at Trois Pavillons

The banana trees of the district were cut down during the night: a rampart was made of them in the middle of the mountain road. On 11 February, these works being barely finished, the sentinels announced the French. General Humbert debouched at the head of 1,200 men; he had left 400 at Port-de-Paix. The Haitians, on one knee behind the rampart, hurled a hail of bullets upon the whites, whole lines of whom were carried off at the same time by the grapeshot of a ten-pounder. The national guard, ambushed in the paths of the mountain, skirmished on the 2 flanks of the enemy. Maurepas stood at the Trois Pavillons at a short distance from the scene of the combat. After 10 hours of a fierce fight, the French, without artillery, were forced to beat a retreat. They lost their way in great numbers in the winding paths of the mountain, falling into wide holes covered by tall grass, and losing their arms. The indigenous forces, dispersed on all sides, struck them down with stones and with sticks, bound them, and led them to Maurepas at the Trois-Pavillons. Humbert, pursued by the national guard…

Rouzier tells this under the entry TROIS PAVILLONS [les].