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1843-02-06

Colonel Cazeau seizes the village for Boyer

Haitian

On 1 February 1843 General Lazarre, who commanded the arrondissement, raises there the standard of the revolution, and joins the revolutionaries who had set out from Praslin. At the head of the popular army he goes to Jérémie. In his absence Colonel Cazeau of the Cayes seized the bourg on 6 February for the government of President Boyer. The citizens of Jérémie sent him a deputation to win him over to the revolution. He dismissed it, replying that he was bound to follow the instructions of his arrondissement commander, General Borgella, who commanded at the Cayes. However, seeing himself on the point of being abandoned by his soldiers, Colonel Cazeau was soon obliged to leave the Anse d’Hainault to go to the Irois, and the popular army of Jérémie entered the bourg. Some citizens of the place distinguished themselves by their selflessness and their services. They were Messrs. Lebreton, Stanislas Tabuteau, Fourneaux the younger, Mouras the elder, Clette, Ismé Paret, Salès, Codiau, Bellefleur, Jambon and others. The first had put his life and fortune at stake. He paid the army out of…

Rouzier tells this under the entry Anse d’Hainault (l’).

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 24 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 24