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1803-01-19

Dessalines was proclaimed general in chief of the indigenous army at Les Vérettes, three days after Pétion arrived there.

Haitian

He halted only at the Dubourg plantation, and on 26 nivôse (16 January) he found himself at Les Vérettes (1). Considering then all the difficulties which the mutual claims of Sans-Souci in the North, of Desrance at Léogane, and of Larose at Arcahaye raised against the cause of independence, he thought he must take a vigorous course to put an end to them: on 29 nivôse (19 January) he had Dessalines solemnly proclaimed GENERAL IN CHIEF OF THE INDIGENOUS ARMY (2).

Source  ·  p. 153 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 3 (Paris: chez l'auteur, 1855), p. 153; English translation, Rasanblaj.