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1889-05-06

General Piquant gives the signal of rout at Dessalines

Haitian

At the beginning of May, General Piquant found himself in his turn surrounded by the Northerners in Dessalines. His communications with la Grande-Saline were cut by the troops of Saint-Marc and of the Gonaïves. He nevertheless succeeded in keeping them at bay. Finally, on 6 May, after a combat of 5 hours in which the Northerners were again repulsed, General Piquant himself gave his troops the signal for the rout, took flight, merely passed through Saint-Michel, where he drew General Saint-Fleur Paul along with him, and did not stop until Port-au-Prince, after covering nearly 80 lieues with his division in disorder: he entered the capital on 14 May. Dismissed, he took refuge in the French consulate and afterward embarked for abroad.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Dessalines ou Marchand.

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 313 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 313