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1806-01-01

About midnight on 1 January 1806, after the ball closing the festival of independence, Dessalines summoned Christophe…

Haitian

About midnight on 1 January 1806, after the ball closing the festival of independence, Dessalines summoned Christophe, Romain and Colonel Pierre Toussaint to his chamber and declared that Geffrard and Pétion were preparing Rigaud’s return and that he had resolved to put them to death that night.

Source  ·  p. 222 to 224 Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. VI) (1856), p. 222 to 224