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1817-08-25

Lightning splits the citadel walls and ignites a powder magazine

Haitian

At the foot of the citadel of the Ferrière, at Milot, lie the ruins of the splendid palace of Sans-Souci, the residence of the king. The citadel itself is falling into ruin. A stroke of lightning had split the walls in several places on 25 August 1817, setting fire to one of the powder magazines; but the breach was repaired. Prince Noël, brother of the queen, and the prince of Port-au-Prince found their tomb there.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Ferrière (la).

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 356 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 356