[1] The arrival of the rebel force at Croix-des-Bouquets led to a slave rebellion in the Plain of the Cul-de-Sac; armed only with improvised weapons such as knives, spears and hoes, the rebels, led by a 21-year old slave named Yacinth, joined Beauvais and Rigaud's force.

On March 22, infantrymen and dragoons of the Port-au-Prince National Guard reinforced by detachments of the 9th and 48th Line Infantry Regiments went to confront the rebels.

The French writer Victor Schœlcher of the nineteenth century, in his book Vie de Toussaint Louverture described this episode: "The blacks brought by Yacinthe, almost all Africans, were scarcely armed with knives, pikes, hoes, and iron poles; but fanaticized by their wizards, convinced that they would be resurrected in Africa if they were killed, they threw themselves on the bayonets without caring for the fires of platoons which decimated them.

Men were seen rushing on the guns, holding them hugged to prevent them from leaving and being killed without letting go.

Others were found thrusting their arms into the mouths of the pieces to tear out the balls and call their comrades, shouting: 'Come, come; we hold them'.