Rigaud, with Pétion and Desruisseaux among his column commanders, retook Léogane from the English.

This same Rigaud, who had completely organized the Legion of Equality of the South, dividing it into three battalions of eight hundred men each, and who had put the town of Les Cayes beyond the reach of any surprise, sets out on 10 vendémiaire (1 October) at the head of eight hundred men, and finds himself on the 16th, at two o’clock in the morning, at the gates of Léogane. He divided his troop into four columns, commanded by Pétion, whom he had taken up at Petit-Goâve, by Faubert, by Borno Déléart and by Desruisseaux.

Pétion carries, with shouldered arms and without a blow, the fort of La Pointe, so called because it is situated on a point of the shore; and, by a prompt cannonade, he forces the English ships to weigh anchor. Desruisseaux, on his side, after two hours of combat, takes possession of two redoubts, whose guns he turns against the town. Campau, an émigré officer who commanded there, orders the evacuation toward Port-au-Prince by the Dampuce plantation; he is pursued without being overtaken by the army, already wearied by a march of fifty leagues. Rigaud, according to his report, counted only twelve dead and as many wounded, but many horses killed. He took one hundred and fifty prisoners, who were sent on to Saint-Louis. Twenty thousand pounds of powder, twelve field guns of 2 and 8, and fifty guns of 8 to 24 fell into his power (1). The twenty thousand pounds of powder were above all a precious booty, given the destitution in which the colony stood of all munitions of war.