Leclerc enters Le Cap on April 2,…

Leclerc enters Le Cap on April 2, having subdued the southern plain, outmaneuvering and wearing down the black army with the help of white colonists and mulatto forces commanded by Pétion and others.

Two of Toussaint's chief lieutenants, Dessalines and Christophe, recognizing their untenable situation, hold separate parleys with the French invaders, and agree to transfer their allegiance.

Christophe goes over to the French with twelve hundred troops, on a promise of retaining his rank in French service.

Toussaint continues to hold the northern mountains with four thousand regular troops and a great number of irregulars.

Leclerc writes to the Minister of the Navy that he needs twenty-five thousand European troops to secure the island—that is, reinforcements of fourteen thousand.