1844-02-27
Customs house of Santo-Domingo. Taken by the insurgents without resistance.
Haitian
They march swiftly on the Porte del Conde and occupy it without striking a blow, for the guard had been won over. Joaquim Puello at once detaches a troop to go and seize the post of the customs house. He orders his political coreligionists to begin fortifying the Puerta del Conde. It was eleven o’clock at night.
Source · p. 112
Thomas Madiou, Histoire d’Haïti, vol. VIII, p. 112