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1846-03-09

Acao abandons Fort Saint-Laurent

Haitian

Acao, commander of the arrondissement of Nippes, has the pretension of replacing Pierrot in power; an influential chief of the Piquets in the South, he raised them to scale the heights of power. The town of Anse-à-Veau is hostile to him: he attempts the arrest of Colonel Christian, commander of the place, whose influence he fears. The latter flees and succeeds in escaping: his friends take the defensive. There is fighting in the town. Pierrot is overthrown from power: General Riché succeeds him. The new president dispatches General Samedi Télémaque with troops to the relief of the town of Anse-à-Veau: Acao can no longer fight, his munitions being exhausted; he abandons fort Saint-Laurent, where he was holding out on 9 March 1846, and takes refuge on the Brossard habitation, where, hunted down, he takes his own life in the night of the 11th. General Pierre Philippeaux is named commander of the arrondissement of Nippes.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Anse-à-Veau (l’).

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 21 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 21