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1804-05-14

Deveau takes Santiago

Haitian

The Spaniards of this town, fearing the vengeance of the indigènes, sent a deputation to Dessalines to offer him their submission to his authority. Dessalines received it favorably and promised them that their province would not be ravaged. He imposed on them a contribution of 500,000 livres tournois, which they were compelled to pay. Thus the whole department of the Cibao, although Dessalines had not sent a single soldier there, became part of the Independent State of Haiti. The command of it was entrusted to Jose Compas Tabarès, a Spanish man of color, a native of Haiti and one of the members of the deputation, who made Santiago his headquarters. He had formed a battalion of noirs and Spanish mulâtres, formerly enslaved, recruited from the habitations near the town. General Ferrand entrusted to Adjutant General Deveau a troop of European grenadiers and ordered him to go and take possession of the department of Cibao. Deveau set out from Santo Domingo, surprised Tabarès, entered Santiago, routed his indigenous soldiers, and made himself master of the town on 14 May 1804. On this news…

Rouzier tells this under the entry CIBAO.

Source  ·  p. t. IV, p. 51 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 51