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1815-02-18

Christophe’s envoys enter Port-au-Prince to propose union; the generals reject it

Haitian

In 1815 King Christophe sent to Pétion at Port-au-Prince the Count du Trou and the Baron de Ferrier, hommes de couleur, and the Baron de Dessalines and the Chevalier d’Edouard Michaud, Blacks, to propose the union of the Haitians in order to stand up to the French in case of an attack on their part. These four envoys carried a dispatch from the Count de Limonade, minister of the king, to General Pétion; they arrived at the Sources Puantes. Pétion sent one of his aides-de-camp to accompany them to Port-au-Prince. The envoys entered Port-au-Prince on 18 February, and were received by the people with transports of joy. The next day, in the meeting of the generals at the national palace, the king’s proposals were rejected and the deputies recrossed the frontiers.

Rouzier tells this under the entry SOURCES PUANTES (les).

Source  ·  p. t. IV, p. 157 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 157