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1797-05-20

Sonthonax raised Pétion to chef de brigade and adjutant general with the army of the West.

Haitian

Wherever there was a maneuver to direct, a resentment to excite against Rigaud, Sonthonax let nothing escape him: he raises on 1 prairial (20 May) Pétion to the rank of brigade chief, adjutant general with the army of the West. He knows that this battalion commander had grievances against Rigaud as against Beauvais; in announcing to him his new functions, he seeks to circumvent him, to make him espouse his unjust and cruel resentments:

Source  ·  p. 286 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 1 (Paris: chez l'auteur, 1854), p. 286; English translation, Rasanblaj.