Government column crosses the Passe Jolie and routs Grand Pierre

PASSE JOLIE (la). Situated on the Artibonite River between La Chapelle and Dessalines. On 9 September 1888, at 7 o’clock in the morning, a column detached from the government troops quartered on the right bank of the Artibonite, at La Chapelle, crossed the Passe Jolie. After a combat of a few hours, General Succès Grand Pierre, chief of military operations of Verrettes for the Northerners, took flight with his volunteers.

Rouzier tells this under the entry PASSE JOLIE (la].