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1802-02-04

Rochambeau’s division lands and takes Fort-Liberté

Haitian

On 4 February 1802, the Rochambeau division of the Leclerc expedition reached the shore of the bay of Mancenille, at the head of which lies that of Fort-Liberté. Rochambeau stormed the redoubt of the Anse, carried it and put to the sword the 30 soldiers who had shut themselves up in it. He then marched against the town, defended by Noël Prière. The ship’s Captain Magon directed all the broadsides of the squadron on Fort Labouque, commanded by Barthélemy, who resisted energetically. Rochambeau entered the town, whose gates were opened to him. Fort Labouque surrendered, but its garrison was put to the sword. The partisans of Toussaint, who had not wished to submit, left the town at the approach of the French, massacring the whites and burning the countryside in their passage. Rochambeau marched by Sainte-Suzanne on the Grande-Rivière du Nord.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Fort-Liberté.

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 381 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 381