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1802-12-14

Cange attacks Leogane and takes the Bineau post and Fort Ca-Ira

Haitian

The first to give Léogane the signal for the insurrection against the French, in March 1803, was Beauséjour, a homme de couleur. In December, Cangé, a former officer of Rigaud, having had himself named chief of the insurgents at Sarrebousse, vigorously assailed the French and drove them back into Léogane, which he closely encircled. Unable to make himself master of the place, strongly defended by Commandant Laucoste, he left around the town enough troops to prevent the French from spreading over the plain, and set out to carry the war into the South. Unable to cross the bridge of Miragoâne, he returned to the plain of Léogane at Sarrebousse. On 14 December 1802 he attacked the town and captured the Bineau post and Fort Ça Ira.

Rouzier tells this under the entry LEOGANE.

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 153 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 153