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1803-05-18

Captain Laporte scuttles his barge and kills himself

Haitian

On 18 May 1803, Captain Laporte, commanding a barge of the Haitian flotilla, pursued in the gulf of the Gonâve by a French cruiser, stove in his boat rather than surrender, and blew out his brains. The entire crew was swallowed up.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Gonâve (la).

Source  ·  p. t. II, p. 35 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. II) (1892), p. t. II, p. 35