General Paul Romain imprisoned at Leogane on Boyer’s order

Léogane served as a prison for General Paul Romain, who went there from the Cap on the order of President Boyer, with his whole family, aboard the State coast guard vessel the Franchise, on 16 April 1821. General Romain had been the soul of a conspiracy at the Gonaïves in February 1821. The 1st and 2nd infantry regiments took up arms at the Cap on the Champ de Mars square, demanding that General Romain be disembarked and that he remain at the Cap. The president had imposing forces deployed against the rebels, who, surrounded on all sides and struck with terror, laid down their arms, imploring pardon. The principal leaders were punished. The following year, in August, Gen. Magny, commander of the arrondissement of the Cap, had arrested at the Cap a man named Jacques Pierre Lamothe, sent to him by General Romain, in the names of Gédéon and of Lamothe-Aigron, to shake his faith in the government. He dispatched him to the President. As soon as Romain learned of the arrest of his envoy, he attempted to escape from the town of Léogane, which he had as his prison. General Gédéon ordered…

Rouzier tells this under the entry LEOGANE.