The confederate army of fifteen hundred men, the Suisses among them, entered Port-au-Prince in procession.

The army of the confederates, made up of fifteen hundred men, among whom were the {{*Suisses*|the enslaved men who had taken up arms in the confederate ranks}}, entered Port-au-Prince in solemn procession on Saturday the 24th. It was received by the municipality at the Saint-Joseph gate; cavalry at the head, artillery in the center, flags unfurled and drums beating, this army crossed the town and drew up in battle order on the Place de l’Intendance, where the national guard and all the troops of the garrison were already assembled (1). A Te Deum was to be sung to sanctify this reconciliation: everyone laid down arms in stacks; they prepared to climb the steps of the church, situated not far away. Caradeux, who commanded the national guard, came to take Beauvais and Lambert by the arm to open the procession; the officers and soldiers of the two armies followed this example. Praloto, who commanded the national artillery (1), walked arm in arm with Pétion, who commanded that of the confederates (2). After the Te Deum, Caradeux, who had had a meal prepared at the barracks, proceeded there with the white national guard, at the same time as the confederation; in the universal enthusiasm Caradeux was proclaimed commander-general of the national guards of the West, and Beauvais second in command. When the festivities were over, Beauvais and Lambert, at the head of the confederates, betook themselves to the government palace, which had been uninhabited since Blanchelande’s flight to the Cap. They established their headquarters there with three hundred men as garrison. These generals, far from sharing with the whites the guard of all the posts and forts of the town, as had been agreed in the treaty of Damiens, contented themselves with sending Doyon with two hundred men to occupy the position of Robin, which the colonists had fortified from the very beginning of the troubles and whose cannon commands the town and the plain (3).