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1800-01-05

Laplume takes Talavigne at midnight; Auger’s sortie is stopped

Haitian

In 1799, Beauvais neglected to arm this point in order to defend its entrance against the army of Toussaint Louverture. On 5 January 1800, at midnight, it was taken by Laplume. Auger made an impetuous sortie: the troops of the North were already wavering. Auger was already penetrating into the redoubts under the deadliest grapeshot, when Dommage and Nérette, after heroic efforts, succeeded in checking his advance and in rescuing General Laplume, who was about to be taken prisoner by the men of Jacmel. Auger, surrounded on all sides by troops five times superior in number to his own, formed in a close column, pierced the enemy masses with the bayonet, and withdrew under the protection of the forts Léogane and du Gouvernement. Bazelais, battalion commander, was wounded. General Laplume and Lieutenant Colonel Lacroix were struck by several bullets.

Rouzier tells this under the entry TALAVIGNE.

Source  ·  p. t. IV, p. 165 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 165