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1807-01-01

Christophe’s army meets Pétion’s at Sibert

Haitian

On 1 January 1807 the army of Christophe, 10,000 men strong, met that of Pétion in the plains of Sibert, situated in the plain of the Cul-de-Sac, 3 lieues from Port-au-Prince: the carnage was horrible. Coutilien Coutard, at the head of his grenadiers, performed prodigies of valor; but the troops of the West, harassed by the cavalry of Christophe and overwhelmed by numbers, were routed. Coutard, seeing the danger that Pétion was running, and consulting only his courage and the public good, takes off the general’s braided hat and replaces it with his own. The enemy covers him with a hail of bullets, and the young lieutenant falls pierced by a thousand blows; but Pétion was able to reach the shore and return in a canoe to Port-au-Prince to save the Republic.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Cul-de-Sac (le).

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 286 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 286