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1795-07-23

The Convention’s decree of 23 July gave the military chiefs the ranks due to their valor, including brigadier general for Villatte, Toussaint Louverture…

Haitian

The Convention’s decree of 23 July gave the military chiefs the ranks due to their valor, including brigadier general for Villatte, Toussaint Louverture, Bauvais and Rigaud, maintained the subordinates provisionally, and left unsanctioned the regulations on general liberty made by Polvérel and Sonthonax.

Source  ·  p. 84, 85 Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. III) (1853), p. 84, 85