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1791-Sept.-28

1791-Sept.-28: Bryan Edwards personally observes the public execution of two captured rebels who were broken on the wheel outside his lodgings in Cape François.

1791-Sept.-28: Bryan Edwards personally observes the public execution of two captured rebels who were broken on the wheel outside his lodgings in Cape François. He recorded that while English spectators felt deep sympathy, many French ladies watched the torture with perfect composure and unseemly mirth.

Source  ·  p. 78 Edwards, Historical Survey, 78