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1795-04-13

Pétion’s battery at the fort of the Mountain opened fire on Fort Byzoton.

Haitian

Aided by Dupuche, Lys and Zénon, Pétion soon had the fort of the Mountain armed. On 24 germinal (13 April) five pieces of cannon, of 8, 16, 18 and 24, and a mortar, began to thunder against Fort Byzoton (2). This cannonade was so well sustained that the 8 and the 24 burst, wounding or killing several gunners. It was miraculous that Pétion found himself unhurt (3). The artillery of the fort of the Mountain rose to ten pieces of 8, 16, 18 and 24 and to several mortars of 8 and 12 inches. The garrison of Fort Byzoton found itself at bay. Pétion proposed, to make an end, to raise another battery to the west, so as to place this garrison between two fires. Work was proceeding on the making of new gabions when the enemy blows up one of our caissons. The cheers raised by the besieged did not last long: Pétion in his turn blew up one of theirs (1).

Source  ·  p. 249 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 1 (Paris: chez l'auteur, 1854), p. 249; English translation, Rasanblaj.