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1806-10-15

Dessalines sends Delpêche to assess the Southern uprising

Haitian

DELPECHE. Delpêche was a commandant and aide-de-camp of the Emperor Dessalines. On 15 October 1806 the Emperor, having learned of the taking up of arms in the South, dispatched him from Marchand to go and ascertain the importance of this revolt and to make a report of it to His Majesty. When Delpêche arrived at Léogane, he learned that the insurrection had already spread to Petit Goave; he could therefore not reach the bridge of Miragoane; he took the road back to Marchand in all haste. In the meantime the Emperor, without awaiting his return, left Marchand and passed on to Saint Marc. On leaving that town he met Delpêche, who was returning from the South, fleeing the insurrection. The aide-de-camp urged him not to enter Port-au-Prince except at the head of an army. Without asking him for any information on what he had left behind him, the Emperor told him furiously that he was a traitor, and commanded him to leave his presence, declaring to him that he wished to see him no more. Delpêche, dismayed, entered Saint Marc, changed his mount and came back in the train of the Emperor; but…

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Source  ·  p. t. IV, p. 63 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 63