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1805, March 7–28

1805, March 7–28: (The Siege and Retreat from Ciudad Santo Domingo): On March 7, 1805, the Haitian columns converged on Ciudad Santo Domingo, where the resol…

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1805, March 7–28: (The Siege and Retreat from Ciudad Santo Domingo): On March 7, 1805, the Haitian columns converged on Ciudad Santo Domingo, where the resolute Ferrand had prepared French and Spaniards alike to sell their lives dearly behind the ancient walls. Lacking artillery to breach the fortifications, Dessalines determined to starve the defenders, but on March 21, when food was short and Ferrand was near the end of his tether, deliverance came from the sea as the French squadron of Admiral Comte de Missiessy appeared offshore. As soon as Dessalines saw the French ships bearing provisions, reinforcements, and heavy guns, he knew the campaign was lost and ordered a retreat. (6) On the night of March 28, the besiegers silently withdrew, and the Haitians behaved worse in retreat than they had in advance, leaving pillage, slaughter, rape, and desolation in their wake. Whole towns populated by Black or mulâtre Dominicans were destroyed and their captive inhabitants marched off to labor until they dropped on Dessalines’s ring of forts and Christophe’s citadel, while at Santiago the sixteenth-century cathedral and four churches were burned and the entire clergy killed.

Source HT-WIB-000138