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1803-05-23

Fressinet wrote to d’Hénin that the commander in chief offered one thousand portugaises for Dessalines and five hundred for Pétion.

Haitian

Port-au-Prince, 3 prairial, Year XI (23 May 1803). “General Fressinet to General d’Hénin, commandant at Saint-Marc,

“The general chief of staff charges me, citizen general, to warn you on behalf of the commander in chief that he grants one thousand portugaises (1) to those who shall take Dessalines or bring him his head, and five hundred for Pétion.

Source  ·  p. 186 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 3 (Paris: chez l'auteur, 1855), p. 186; English translation, Rasanblaj.