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1888-12-03

Northerners’ Fort Picolet fires on the state ship Toussaint-Louverture

Haitian

On 3 and 5 December 1888, Fort Picolet, which the Northerners had armed, fired a cannonball at the State ship the Toussaint-Louverture, which was cruising off the Cap. After 5 or 6 shots the Toussaint-Louverture silenced it, passed within 6 fathoms of the fort and shelled the town; fire broke out in 3 places. For lack of landing troops the government was unable to profit from this success.

Rouzier tells this under the entry PICOLET (le).

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 413 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 413