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1795-01-04

Jean François defeats Toussaint at camp Charles Sec

Haitian

In January 1795, Toussaint-Louverture went to fight the Spaniards at the Grande-Rivière. Jean François yielded ground to him in order to draw him to the camp Charles Sec, a well-fortified position where he was bound to defeat him without fail. On 4 January, Toussaint had the positions that protected this fortification taken, in order to attack it with greater ease. Toussaint thought that the road leading from Vallière to the camp Charles Sec was cut off by Noël Artaud, one of his lieutenants. But Artaud had been unable to resist the impetuosity of Jean François, who occupied this road after driving him from it. Toussaint, believing he had nothing to fear on the side of Vallière, came to attack the camp Charles Sec with all his forces united. Jean François hurled himself upon him with the greatest vigor and, after a most obstinate combat, overthrew him, put his troops in complete rout, and pursued him as far as the Montagne Noire, at the Pico. This defeat cost Toussaint all the advantages he had gained until then.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Charles Sec.

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 223 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 223