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1799-08-31

Toussaint took Jean-Rabel and the Môle, and Desruisseaux and Bellegarde escaped by barge to the South.

Haitian

This aggression of Beauvais filled Toussaint with joy. He cried out at the violation of the neutrality, without wishing to recall that he himself had been the first to violate it by seizing the Sale-Trou and the Marigot! But occupied at Port-de-Paix with the surrender of Jean-Rabel and the Môle, he contented himself with ordering Dessalines to form a cordon from Camp-Tavet to Trou-Coucou and from Trou-Coucou to Sale-Trou, to contain the movements of Beauvais. Soon he took Jean-Rabel from Golart and encircled the Môle, which fell on 14 fructidor (31 August). Desruisseaux and Bellegarde threw themselves into a barge and made their way to the South. Golart reached the mountains with twenty men of the 3rd. He was to remain there until the arrival of the French.

Source  ·  p. 74 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 2 (Paris: chez l'auteur, 1854), p. 74; English translation, Rasanblaj.