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1809-06-06

Pétion’s army of some 8,000 leaves the capital by the road of Morne-à-Cabris; on the 8th Gérin’s division heads for the Artibonite ford at Las-Cahobas.

Haitian

This army left the capital on 6 June by the road of le Morne-à-Cabris. It halted only at la Crête-Brûlée. On the 8th the Gérin division directed itself by the road of le Fer-à-Cheval, to cross the Artibonite at the ford of Las-Cahobas.

Source  ·  p. 152 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 5 (Paris: Auguste Durand, 1857), p. 152; English translation, Rasanblaj.