Skip to content
🇭🇹   BETA  ·  8,525 entries published  ·  91,475 entries away from the 100k milestone.       🇭🇹   BETA  ·  8,525 entries published  ·  91,475 entries away from the 100k milestone.       
You are offline — some content may not be available
1804-01-01

Dessalines proclaims the independence of Haiti at the Gonaïves

Haitian

History. On 1 January 1804, the commander in chief of the army of the indigènes, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, proclaimed at the Gonaïves the independence of Haiti on the Place d’Armes, around the altar of the fatherland that the palm tree of Liberty shaded. The act of independence is signed by the commander in chief, as well as by Pétion, Clervaux, Geffrard, Vernet, generals of division; P. Romain, E. Gérin, F. Capoix, Daut, Jean-Louis François, Férou, Cangé, L. Bazelais, Magloire Ambroise, J.-J. Herne, Toussaint Brave, Yayou, generals of brigade; Bonnet, F. Papailler, Morelly, Chevalier, Marion, adjutants general; Magny, Roux, chiefs of brigade; Charéron, B. Loret, Quéné, Marcajoux, Dupuy, Carbonne, Diaquoi the elder, J. Raphaël, Malet, Derenoncourt, officers of the army, and Boisrond-Tonnerre, secretary.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Gonaïves (les).

Source  ·  p. t. II, p. 23 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. II) (1892), p. t. II, p. 23