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1870-01-15

Salnave’s generals executed and Salnave put to death

Haitian

On 8 January 1870, President Salnave, fleeing the revolution of the Cacos, triumphant in Port-au-Prince, presented himself with his retinue at the Anses à Pitres and wished to force the passage with arms in hand. The Dominican General Cabral was guarding a post between Las Damas and le Petit Trou, where Baëz was. At the place called la Cuaba, a fight broke out between Cabral’s men and Salnave’s. After a struggle of five hours, Salnave and his people were taken prisoner and led to la Salina, from where Cabral informed the government of the revolution of this important capture on 10 January 1870. The prisoners were taken to Fond Ravet, where they were handed over to General Montmorency Benjamin, Secretary of State for War. On the morning of 15 January, the generals of Salnave’s retinue, Alfred Delva, Jean-Baptiste Errié and Saint-Lucien Emmanuel, were executed at la Croix-des-Bouquets, and Salnave was taken to Port-au-Prince, where he met his death on the ruins of the national palace, after a summary trial.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Anses à Pitres (les), ou Mouillage haïtien.

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 17 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 17