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1808-09-03

Pétion leaves the Senate at its seat and goes to take command of the army at the Boucassin for another march on Saint-Marc.

Haitian

Lamarre called loudly for the grand army (2) which occupied the Boucassin. Pétion therefore left the Senate at its seat and went, on 3 September, to take command of that army. As on the last occasions, the object was to carry Saint-Marc in passing, to fall upon the Gonaïves, and by way of Plaisance, le Gros-Morne and le Borgne, to place Christophe’s army between two fires.

Source  ·  p. 129 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 5 (Paris: Auguste Durand, 1857), p. 129; English translation, Rasanblaj.