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1802-12

Capois plans to burn the French establishments on La Tortue

Haitian

In December 1802 the indigenous General Capois, commanding at Port-de-Paix, conceived the plan of burning the French establishments on the Tortue. Determined to burn the hospital, he ordered Commandant Vincent Louis to prepare to carry out a landing there. The ruin of this establishment was to deprive the French of immense resources. Vincent Louis had rafts built from planks lashed with strong creepers and embarked, accompanied by one hundred and fifty elite men of the 9th, under the orders of Captain Gardel. He set out from the Carré Rouge of Saint-Louis-du-Nord at the beginning of a dark night, from 6 to 7 January 1803. Two boats laden with rowers towed the rafts. The indigènes, after avoiding the lugger the Vautour, under the orders of Captain Fey, which was cruising between Port-de-Paix and Saint-Louis, landed on the island of the Tortue, at the Basse Terre and at the pointe Palmiste. Vincent Louis went straight to the habitation Labatut, which he took without striking a blow. He freed a crowd of indigènes [600] who were held there in chains, among others his mother, his son and…

Rouzier tells this under the entry TORTUE (la).

Source  ·  p. t. IV, p. 202 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 202