Citizens of Abricots repel General Solage’s army at the Ravine des Sables

On 24 February 1843, the citizens of the Abricots, warned of the march of the government army commanded by General Solage, were raising a rampart to bar his passage. At 11 o’clock in the morning, word came to the post that the enemy was at hand and was advancing in silence. The work was not yet finished: the last stakes were being planted when the enemy appeared. The rampart was manned. The enemy’s advance guard appears. A cry goes up to it: halt! General Cazeau, who commands, refuses to recognize citizen Rey as chief of the Post: he means to force the passage: his soldiers advance at the charge step. Rey’s soldiers press him to order them to fire. Fire! says Rey, and a terrible volley is heard. Many men of the enemy’s first platoon fall. Three times the army tries to assault the position, three times the patriots of Jérémie repulse it with loss.

Rouzier tells this under the entry RAVINE DES SABLES (la).