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1795-06-06

Rigaud drew the army back to Léogane on Laveaux’s order, ending a siege of fifty-five days.

Haitian

Fort Byzoton was bound to fall; unhappily Colonel L’Ouverture, charged with making a diversion against Saint-Marc in favor of Rigaud, had failed completely in his attempt. Laveaux ordered Rigaud to raise the siege of Byzoton. This siege had lasted fifty-five days (2). Rigaud therefore had the army fall back as far as Léogane on 18 prairial (16 June).

Source  ·  p. 250 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 1 (Paris: chez l'auteur, 1854), p. 250; English translation, Rasanblaj.