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1874-05-01

Domingue sends the Jacmel regiment to arrest Boisrond-Canal at Frère

Haitian

General Boisrond-Canal was working peacefully on his habitation, which he then held on lease from the State as property sequestered from the former President Geffrard, when, on 1 May 1874, President Domingue sent to Frère the regiment of Jacmel, quartered at Port-au-Prince, to arrest him and take him prisoner to Port-au-Prince, while Generals Pierre Monplaisir Pierre and Brice, hunted down in their own homes by the troops, were meeting death. Warned in time by an officer devoted to him, named Fourcaud Fleuriau, Boisrond-Canal held himself on his guard, put the regiment of Jacmel to flight with carbine fire, and took refuge with Calix Carrié and Canal the younger, his brother, in the American consulate at Turgeau, for one night, running the greatest dangers. A short time afterward, Boisrond-Canal, miraculously escaped from this political ambush, left for exile, from which he returned in April 1876, at the fall of the Domingue-Rameau government. He was elected president of Haiti on 17 July.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Frère.

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 389 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 389