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1799-06-15

Faubert lets Petit-Goâve be pillaged

Haitian

Faubert gave the town up to pillage. Rigaud had only 2,000 men; Toussaint thereupon took the field at the head of 20,000 men. Both parties invoked the name of France; each claimed to be fighting for the republic. On all sides the men of color were slaughtered in the North and in the West. Toussaint’s troops marched from Léogane on the Grand-Goâve, beyond which the vanguard of the army of the South was established, on the Thauzin habitation. [See this word]. When the army of the South retreated, in May 1800, to Petit-Goâve, it found Rigaud there. Renaud Desruisseaux, wounded at the Grand-Goâve, died and was buried at Petit-Goâve with pomp in the center of the parade ground, at the foot of the Tree of Liberty.

Rouzier tells this under the entry PETIT-GOAVE.

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 402 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 402