Skip to content
🇭🇹   BETA  ·  9,789 entries published  ·  90,211 entries away from the 100k milestone.       🇭🇹   BETA  ·  9,789 entries published  ·  90,211 entries away from the 100k milestone.       
You are offline — some content may not be available
1793-Jun.-20

1793-Jun.-20: Commissioners Sonthonax and Polverel offer rebel bands the sack of Cap Français to secure support.

1793-Jun.-20: Commissioners Sonthonax and Polverel offer rebel bands the sack of Cap Français to secure support. This desperate political gamble allowed the commissioners to hold power against white counter-revolutionaries.

Source Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, 14-15; Ghachem, The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution, 268; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 29