1802-10-23
Dessalines raises the standard of revolt in the Artibonite
Haitian
On 23 October 1802, Dessalines raised the standard of revolt against the French in the Artibonite, seized the Petite Rivière, and rallied to Pétion, to Christophe and to Clerveaux.
Rouzier tells this under the entry Artibonite (l’).
Source · p. t. I, p. 52
Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 52