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1803-02-18

On the evening of 18 February (29 pluviôse) 150 picked men of the 9th under Captain Gardel mounted rafts towed to La Tortue…

Haitian

On the evening of 18 February (29 pluviôse) 150 picked men of the 9th under Captain Gardel mounted rafts towed to La Tortue; the island’s blacks were severely punished, and in March they rose again and massacred the sick they could reach.

Source  ·  p. 377 Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. V) (1854), p. 377