Skip to content
🇭🇹   BETA  ·  9,776 entries published  ·  90,224 entries away from the 100k milestone.       🇭🇹   BETA  ·  9,776 entries published  ·  90,224 entries away from the 100k milestone.       
You are offline — some content may not be available
1803-06-04

Petion takes Lassere from the Marquis de Lavalette

Haitian

On 4 June 1803, Pétion took it from the Marquis de Lavalette. There was a French block-house there. Dessalines ordered his soldiers to wage a war of extermination on the whites but to spare the indigènes who assisted them. “They are our brothers,” he said, “sooner or later they will recognize their error.”

Rouzier tells this under the entry LASSERE.

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 133 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 133