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1799-06-15

Rigaud seizes Petit-Goâve, first sign of the civil war

Haitian

On 15 June 1799 Rigaud took possession of Petit-Goâve, thus giving the first symptom of the civil war against Toussaint Louverture. Jean Cécile and Faubert, colonels of the 1st and 2nd regiments, received from Rigaud the order to cross the Pont de Miragoâne, the boundary of the departments of the South and of the West, and to surprise Petit-Goâve, where General Laplume was, whom Rigaud was certain of attaching to his party if he succeeded in carrying him off. On that day, at dawn, Faubert arrived noiselessly beneath the ramparts of the town, surprised the fort of the shore, and entered it. Delva, an officer devoted to Rigaud, came with cultivators of the surrounding area to lend him armed assistance. Laplume was already taken when a young officer, Eloi Boudeau, shot down with a pistol the soldier who held him. Laplume threw himself into the ditches, reached a canoe, and made his way to Léogane. The garrison fell back on the Tapion, Thauzin and the Grand-Goâve.

Rouzier tells this under the entry PETIT-GOAVE.

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 402 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 402