Pétion addressed the 10th and 13th half-brigades at Morne Rouge and shielded French prisoners

On 14 October 1802 Pétion, after taking up arms against the French at the Haut du Cap, went with the 10th half-brigade and the 13th to the Morne Rouge. When he arrived there he had his troops halt, took his place in their midst and told them that they were undertaking a national war and not a party war; that they would have to live amid the greatest privations, which would be for them a blessing in compensation for the fate that awaited them in the towns; that they would no longer shed their blood either for France or to satisfy the ambition of one of their own; that they would fight for their own liberty and for the independence of their country; that they would keep the two-colored flag because it was the one that had emancipated them, the one under which they had snatched from degradation their race, which people still wished to debase; that from now on they would have as their device the Phrygian cap with these words: Liberty, Independence or Death. “The blood of our brothers cries to us for vengeance,” he continued. “If we do not triumph over our tyrants, at least by dying as…

Rouzier tells this under the entry MORNE ROUGE.