Rigaud raised the siege of Les Irois and entered Les Cayes by forced marches.

The call to arms had rallied two hundred and sixteen national guards and sixty-eight men of the 88th regiment. Desfourneaux orders Brigade Chief Nadaud to march with a hundred and fifty men upon the Tourterelle. This detachment is repulsed after losing three men. Beauvais is sent to the forts. His voice is disregarded; they will hear no proposal of peace before the arrival of Rigaud. The delegation is obliged to resolve to summon the latter. Rigaud raises the siege of Les Irois, moves by forced marches upon Les Cayes, and makes his entry there on the 24th, in the morning (31 August). But in the night Rey, Desfourneaux and their suites had clandestinely embarked. “This flight,” says Beauvais in his report, “disclosed guilty men.” Barges are armed in pursuit of them: they land at Ile-à-vache, situated seven leagues from Plaine-du-Fonds; they wander there for seven days; picked up at last by an American vessel, they are put ashore at Gonaïves and make their way to the Cap (1). Exasperation was at its height; already, and with great difficulty, Beauvais had prevented the soldiers from falling upon the town. However, at the announcement of the arrival of Rigaud, the legionnaires go to his government house. It is known that in every mob there are fanatics. They begin, on the way, by putting to death a young *mulâtre* by the name of Lilladam, sub-controller of the navy, a creature of the delegation, who had replaced Gavanon, a white man justly loved, whom they had dismissed to the general displeasure, and a young Black man by the name of Edouard, captain aide-de-camp of Desfourneaux, who had not been able to follow that general in his flight. Lilladam and Edouard had arrived in the colony with Sonthonax. They had been arrested by a patrol while they were catechizing the men of the plain in favor of their patrons. These same men of the plain had also burst into the town; they sacrificed several colonists. Leborgne had much to tremble for his life. At last Beauvais and Rigaud were able to restore calm. The commotion made itself felt throughout the Bande-du-Sud: Brigade Chief Laplume and Battalion Commander Pétion knew how, at Léogane, to prevent attempts on the lives of the whites, by deploying an energy beyond all expression (1).