Skip to content
🇭🇹   BETA  ·  10,079 entries published  ·  89,921 entries away from the 100k milestone.       🇭🇹   BETA  ·  10,079 entries published  ·  89,921 entries away from the 100k milestone.       
You are offline — some content may not be available
1802-11-22

Pétion’s columns took Fort David and the fort of the Crête above Mirebalais, and the garrison withdrew into the town.

Haitian

Pétion, having left Petite-Rivière on 26 brumaire (17 November), passed through Plassac, Belbéde, Rédillon and the Coupe-Mardi-Gras; arrived on the 29th (20 November), at seven in the evening, in the gorge of La Tumbe, and established his bivouacs there. The next morning, 1 frimaire (22 November) (1), before daybreak, the town was blockaded. Jean-Philippe Daut was charged with attacking on the left, with the 10th, the advanced entrenchment of the fort of the Crête; Geffrard, with the 13th, was to attack Fort David on the right. Pétion kept command of the 7th as a reserve.

Accordingly, Geffrard scales the ramparts of Fort David; the garrison withdraws precipitately into the town without striking a blow. Daut falls upon the fort of the Crête, which the enemy likewise abandons after a single volley, to re-enter the town.

Source  ·  p. 131 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 3 (Paris: chez l'auteur, 1855), p. 131; English translation, Rasanblaj.