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1802-02-05

Boudet’s division lands at Lamentin and takes Fort Bizoton and Port-au-Prince

Haitian

On 5 February 1802, on the arrival of the Leclerc expedition, the division of General Boudet landed at Lamentin, where the present lighthouse of the bay of Port-au-Prince stands, seized Fort Bizoton, and entered Port-au-Prince after a brief resistance from the fort of the Portail de Léogane (Lerebours), situated at the southern end of the Grande Rue. Fort Bizoton did not sound the alarm. When the division came near the fort, General Boudet sent an envoy under a flag of truce there, who declared to Bardet and Séraphin, who commanded there, that they were to hand the fort over to him, in the name of France, their fatherland. At the same time Boudet marched with arms at the shoulder with his grenadiers. The garrison came out of the fort and came to meet the French with the cries of: Long live our brothers! It took its place in the European lines and marched against the town. A French regiment took possession of Fort Bizoton.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Bizoton.

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 115 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 115