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1810-07-10

Lamarre was killed by a cannonball in redoubt No 2

Haitian

In 1808 the senate declared that the expeditionary army of the republic under the orders of Senator Lamarre, brigadier general, had deserved well of the fatherland. The army, reduced to the utmost misery, was twice the object of President Pétion’s attempt to go to its aid, in September 1808 and in May 1809. That is what motivated his campaign against Saint-Marc and the Mirebalais. After accomplishing acts of heroism, devotion, and courage that would honor the military annals of great peoples, it succumbed in 1810 after two years of siege. On 10 July, while visiting his lines, Lamarre was carried off by a cannonball in redoubt No 2. Christophe himself, who was fighting, gave praise to his talents: on the 17th the King’s fleet hove to before the Môle and fired the mourning gun for Lamarre.

Rouzier tells this under the entry MOLE SAINT-NICOLAS.

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 268 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 268