1795-01-03
Barbara, Ducasse, Pistau, Sabourin, Tanache. Attacked or taken by the Republicans in the Grande-Rivière campaign.
Haitian
After sending his prisoners to the Dondon, Toussaint set out on 14 Nivôse (3 January 1795) against the camps Pistau and Ducasse, which he took after a bloody fight. At the same time Moyse took the camps Sabourin and Tanache. Toussaint then attacked Fort Bamby, set on the summit of an almost inaccessible morne, and ordered the free companies of the Dondon to storm it. The soldiers of that corps, without answering the enemy’s fire, their muskets slung on their backs, climbed the morne through the grapeshot and the bullets of the fortification, which they carried with the bayonet. For his part Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas André took the camp Barbara.
Source · p. 212
Thomas Madiou, Histoire d’Haïti, vol. I, p. 212; Thomas Madiou, Histoire d’Haïti, vol. I, p. 211