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1800-07-08

Dessalines enters Anse-à-Veau

Haitian

History. Two days after the battle of Aquin (7 July 1800), Dessalines, having left the rest of his army under the orders of Brigadier General Laplume, set out from Aquin for Anse-à-Veau with 800 men. A distance of 10 lieues separates these two towns. Dessalines, because of the flooding of the rivers, spent the night on the Piémont habitation, 2 lieues from Anse-à-Veau. During the day of the 7th, the Rigaudins had evacuated the town after giving it over to pillage. Dessalines entered it the following day. Many cultivators and townsmen, weary of the war, came to submit to him. He sent the most influential of them to Toussaint-Louverture: it was to send them to their deaths. A schooner that had left Petit Trou, believing the town still in the power of the army of the South, came to anchor in the roadstead of Anse-à-Veau: it was seized and given over to pillage.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Anse-à-Veau (l’).

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 19 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 19