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1806-05-13

Geffrard died, and Dessalines exclaimed that death had been quicker than he.

Haitian

But Geffrard happened to die on 13 May 1806: “Hun! hun (1)!” cried Dessalines, “death has been quicker than I (2)!”

Source  ·  p. 108 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 4 (Paris: Auguste Durand, 1857), p. 108; English translation, Rasanblaj.