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1807-05-25

Bazelais sails from Port-au-Prince with a flotilla of seventeen sail and 2,000 men to make a diversion at Saint-Marc.

Haitian

They were therefore to march against the North. Pétion divided his army into two corps; a flotilla of seventeen sail (1), carrying 2,000 men drawn from the 11th, 12th, 17th, 22nd, 23rd and 24th demi-brigades, under the orders of General Bazelais, left Port-au-Prince in the night of 25 May. Bazelais had as his principal lieutenants the adjutants-general Lamarre and Lacroix. His instructions were to make a descent at Saint-Marc, to carry that place and to hold it, in order to force Christophe to strip his army, which was to be grappling with Rébecca; this is what is called a diversion.

Source  ·  p. 45 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 5 (Paris: Auguste Durand, 1857), p. 45; English translation, Rasanblaj.