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1806-10-16

Pétion, Gérin, Yayou and Vaval entered Port-au-Prince at four in the afternoon with six demi-brigades.

Haitian

Pétion, Gérin, Yayou and Vaval entered Port-au-Prince on the 16th, at four in the afternoon, with the 11th, 12th, 15th, 16th, 21st and 24th demi-brigades and three squadrons of dragoons. While Pétion maintained public order in the town, Gérin moved upon the high road to Croix-des-Bouquets; he posted ambushes in echelon from the Saint-Joseph gate to the Drouillard plantation, behind every hedge and every thicket.

Source  ·  p. 134 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 4 (Paris: Auguste Durand, 1857), p. 134; English translation, Rasanblaj.