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1791-11-21

Beauvais abandons the government palace of Port-au-Prince for lack of ammunition

Haitian

On 21 November 1791, during the fight between the whites and the affranchis in the town of Port-au-Prince, Beauvais, obliged for lack of munitions to abandon the government palace where he was stationed, crossed the habitation Covin in good order and withdrew to the Croix-des-Bouquets.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Covin.

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 261 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 261