Desfourneaux's division enters Les Gonaïves, now on fire, on February 23.

General Boudet occupied Saint-Marc, also on fire and filled with the blood of the throats cut on the orders of Dessalines, who managed to escape the trap.

Maurepas and his two thousand troops continue to resist but finally have to surrender to Humbert.

The French forces besieging fort de la Crête-à-Pierrot are attacked in the rear by Dessalines, then by Toussaint, as they attempt to bring relief to the besieged, but the fort is finally forced to surrender and inside it are found large amounts of arms and munitions as well as many assassinated white residents.

At Les Verrettes the French forces find a horrible spectacle.

No longer able to follow the rebel forces' march, eight hundred men, women, children and old people had been killed, and the rebels there had also killed any prisoners they had taken.