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1879-08-17

Jumeau and Hérissé expel the Bazelaisistes and the town is burned

Haitian

In August 1879, the Bazelaisists, fleeing Port-au-Prince, which they were unable to reduce, betook themselves to the Gonaïves, which they seized. The provisional government sent against them troops commanded by Generals Jean Jumeau and Hériston Hérissé, who drove them out on 17 August. The town was set on fire with the aid of petroleum. The Bazelaisists betook themselves to Jérémie, where no one would receive them, and from there to Kingston, which had long since become the refuge of the Haitian revolutionaries.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Gonaïves (les).

Source  ·  p. t. II, p. 25 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. II) (1892), p. t. II, p. 25