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1803-03-17

Lamarre takes up arms and drives the French from Petit-Goâve

Haitian

At the time of the general insurrection of the indigènes against the French, in December 1802, Cangé and Gilles Bambara commanded their bands in the heights of Petit-Goâve under the sovereignty of Lamour Dérance. Cangé, unable to seize Léogane, was going to carry the war into the South. When he crossed the mornes of Petit-Goâve, he was attacked by Delpêche. Cangé defeated him and continued on his way. Lamarre took up arms there around the middle of March 1803 and drove the French out of it on the 17th. On the 31st, two warships, on the order of Rochambeau, came to bombard the place, whose fire obliged them to put out to sea again. On 8 April a flotilla came to carry out a landing there. Lamarre set fire to the place. The next day he drove the French back into the town. On the 10th, unable to hold out any longer, the French re-embarked.

Rouzier tells this under the entry PETIT-GOAVE.

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 403 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 403