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1837-02-04

Isidore Gabriel and Armoric are shot down

Haitian

After fleeing from the Cap, whose arsenal he had surprised in the night of Saturday 27 January 1837, Colonel Isidore Gabriel, of the mounted carabiniers, escaped with his stepson Armoric into the heights of Sainte Suzanne, where he wandered for several days. General Monpoint, commanding the Arrondissement of the Grande Rivière du Nord, having learned of it, at once dispatched a detachment under the orders of Colonel Mouscardy to seize him. This colonel took his measures so well that he surrounded the place where Isidor had taken refuge. Seeing from afar the troop advancing to take him, Isidor threatened to fire on it; it fired a volley: the two rebels fell at the same time, Isidore having a shattered thigh but still breathing; Armoric, riddled with bullets and lifeless. At this sight Colonel Mouscardy rushed toward Isidor and reproached him in forceful terms for his revolt against the republic and his ingratitude toward the president of Haiti, who had been his benefactor and his father. “It is true,” replied Isidor, “I am guilty; I well deserve my fate.” He expired a few hours…

Rouzier tells this under the entry SAINTE SUZANNE.

Source  ·  p. t. IV, p. 89 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 89