Under the armistice signed with the English on 11 floréal (30 April), Toussaint’s troops occupied Saint-Marc, Arcahaye, Croix-des-Bouquets and Port-au-Prince, and Laplume and Pétion arrived at Port-au-Prince with the Legion.

The English were beginning at this moment to weary of a war which cost them much money and much blood: they had seen all the posts and fortresses they occupied in the Mirebalais, in the Verrettes, in the Grands-Bois fall one after another, and quite recently Adjutant-General Pétion had taken from them the famous camp of La Coupe, which might carry the war to the very walls of Port-au-Prince. In the south, Rigaud, having retaken Tiburon and the Irois, was preparing to march against Jérémie: the English then resolved to evacuate the colony. Admiral Maitland, who commanded their naval forces, made the first overtures: an armistice of five weeks was concluded, on 11 floréal (30 April), on board the ship *Labergovenie*, in the roadstead of Port-au-Prince, between Adjutant-General Huin and Colonel Ninghtingall; the English undertook to restore to Toussaint Saint-Marc, Arcahaye, Croix-des-Bouquets and Port-au-Prince, on condition that the lives and property of the residents who did not wish to abandon the colony be guaranteed. Toussaint, during this armistice, went to the Cap: Hédouville showed him the greatest confidence; he communicated to him his instructions (1), and Toussaint saw there the power with which the agent was armed against Rigaud; but he recognized also that the agent had no idea of using it. Toussaint returned to the West. And by virtue of the armistice, on 18 floréal (7 May), Charles Belair with the 4th and 7th demi-brigades occupied Saint-Marc; Dessalines, with the 2nd and the battalion of the Verrettes (20th line regiment), Arcahaye; Paul L’Ouverture with the 10th and the battalion of Mamezelle (today the 12th regiment), Croix-des-Bouquets, and Christophe Morney with the 1st and the 8th, Port-au-Prince (2), where Laplume and Pétion arrived with the Legion.