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1878-03-14

Louis Tanis seizes Fort National

Haitian

On 14 March 1878, General Louis Tanis, commander of the department of the West, taking advantage of the absence of President Boisrond-Canal, who was visiting the South, seized Fort National and rose in rebellion against the government and against the Bazelaisistes. On the 18th, the head of State arrives at Port-au-Prince; the insurgents in the fort take flight and take refuge in the American consulate at Turgeau. The population of Port-au-Prince, encamped at Fort Eveillard, had been able to hold back the rebels until the arrival of the President of Haiti.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Fort National.

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 382 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 382