1820-10-08
Movement begins at Saint-Marc to overthrow Christophe
Haitian
Dessalines is the first town that responded, after Verrettes, to the movement inaugurated at Saint-Marc on 8 October 1820 to overthrow the tyranny of Christophe.
Rouzier tells this under the entry Dessalines ou Marchand.
Source · p. t. I, p. 312
Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 312