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1878-10-02

Authorities organize at the Dégué bridge against Catule Mirville’s insurrection

Haitian

DEGUE ou DESGUETS. Bridge situated outside the ditches of the bourg of the Croix-des-Bouquets, bounded on the west by the main road of the Grande Plaine leading to Port-au-Prince. On 2 October 1878 the authorities organised themselves there to combat the insurrection of Catule Mirville.

Rouzier tells this under the entry DEGUE ou DESGUETS.

Source  ·  p. t. IV, p. 62 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 62