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1807-05-17

Port-de-Paix rises against Christophe under Sergeant Rébecca

Haitian

On 17 May 1807 Port-de-Paix rose against the general in chief Christophe, with Sergeant Jean Louis Rebecca as leader of the insurrection. The Borgne, Jean Rabel and Gros Morne followed the movement in favor of the republic of Petion. Rébecca was born at Port-de-Paix in 1769. Incorporated into the 9th demi-brigade under the government of Toussaint Louverture, he fought under Maurepas against the French and rose to the rank of adjutant noncommissioned officer in the 2nd battalion. When Christophe, after his fruitless attempt against Port-au-Prince, pronounced in the North the prescription of the men of color, the 9th, indignant, let murmurs be heard that were soon stifled by the chiefs; but Rébecca resolved to make a diversion in favor of the republican government of the West. An insurrection having broken out, toward the end of April 1807, in the heights of Gros Morne, General Pourcely, who had replaced General Guillaume in the command of Port-de-Paix, tried in vain to march the troops to put it down. The noncommissioned officers and the soldiers are carried off to the Grand Fort by…

Rouzier tells this under the entry PORT-DE-PAIX.

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 489 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 489