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1889-02-06

Dardignac defeats the Nordistes at Gervais

Haitian

On 6 February 1889, General Dardignac, operating against the Northerners of Saint-Marc for the government of General Légitime, and having under his orders about 250 men, defeated there the insurgents led by Monfiston Jérôme, commandant of the town of Saint-Marc, who fled, abandoning their dead and wounded. Mr. Edmond Martelly was taken prisoner there and brought to Port-au-Prince, where he revealed the deplorable state of the town of Saint-Marc.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Gervais.

Source  ·  p. t. II, p. 13 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. II) (1892), p. t. II, p. 13