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1799-08-15

Compas charges the Sans-Culottes at Thauzin and Gabart Vaillant withdraws

Haitian

Meanwhile the regiment of the Sans-Culottes of the North, composed of 2,000 men, held its ground energetically in the cane fields of Thauzin. Rigaud hurled against it Lieutenant Colonel Compas at the head of 200 grenadiers. Compas fired a single volley at the Sans-Culottes and closed with them at the bayonet. He was struck down, hit by a bullet. The melee became terrible. Finally Gabart Vaillant, who commanded the Sans-Culottes, was obliged to abandon the position and fall back on the Grand-Goâve. Compas, gravely wounded, was carried to the field hospital. From the beginning of the action Geffrard had routed Dessalines’s right wing along the shore. Rigaud had been wounded in the hand during the fight.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Grand-Goâve (le).

Source  ·  p. t. II, p. 47 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. II) (1892), p. t. II, p. 47