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1799-08-15

Rigaud forms three columns against Toussaint’s army at Grand-Goâve

Haitian

The village of Grand-Goâve is picturesque; it lies a short distance from the sea, in the middle of a small sloping plain which, well cultivated in 1799, was covered with sugar cane and fruit trees. It was near this spot that the armies of Toussaint-Louverture and Rigaud met at that time. On 15 August, Rigaud formed three columns of his army: the right one, composed of 400 men, was entrusted to Colonel Faubert; it was to enter the woods of the Thauzin habitation and take the enemy in the rear, after turning the Grand-Goâve. The left one, likewise composed of 400 men under the orders of General Geffrard, was to attack the enemy’s right wing by skirting the seashore. General André Rigaud, at the head of the center column, composed of 1,000 men, was to advance by the main road. He gave the order to attack at four o’clock in the afternoon.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Grand-Goâve (le).

Source  ·  p. t. II, p. 46 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. II) (1892), p. t. II, p. 46