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1800-06-30

Laplume turns the rampart and takes it; Auger mortally wounded

Haitian

General Laplume could not carry their rampart. The next day, however, he succeeded in turning it and seizing it. It was in this affair that Auger, who had covered himself with glory at the siege of Jacmel, was mortally wounded. He went to end his days at the Cayes. Laplume, by faulty maneuvers, sacrificed a great number of his soldiers. Colonel Pierre Louis Diane was gravely wounded. Laplume, displeased at having seen the chief command of the army entrusted to Colonel Donnage, his inferior, had given it only halfheartedly,

Rouzier tells this under the entry TRÉMÉ ou DUFRÉTEY.

Source  ·  p. t. IV, p. 209 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 209