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1802-09-23

The French army numbered 17,103 men, with nearly 7,000 in hospital, against a colonial army whose demi-brigades Saint-Rémy lists one by one.

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The French army was composed, on 1 vendémiaire, according to the table which General Boudet carried, a table already cited, of 17,103 men, distributed among the different divisions of the South, the West and the North, with nearly 7,000 men in the hospitals; which leaves 10,103 combatants. The colonial army was composed and distributed as follows, according to the same document: 1st demi-brigade, 262 men: 141 at Fort-Liberté and 121 at Grand-Pré; 2nd, 187 men at Grand-Pré; 3rd, 74 men at Santo-Domingo (1); 4th, 128 men in the Artibonite (1); 5th, 219 men: 143 at Fort-Liberté, 76 at Grand-Pré; 6th, 555 men: 49 at Fort Villate, 75 at Limonade, 88 at Petite-Anse, 288 at Haut-du-Cap, and 55 at the Cap; 7th, 147 men at Fort-Liberté; 8th (2); 9th, 285 men, in the mountains of Port-de-Paix and Plaisance; 10th, 403 men: 345 at Porte-Saint-Jacques, 27 at Limonade, 31 at Petite-Anse; 11th (3); 12th (4); 13th, 239 men: 215 at Dondon, and 24 at Plaisance; battalion of Gonaïves, 73 men at Pont-Gaudin; guides of the North (5). Total, 2,572 men.

Source  ·  p. 78 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 3 (Paris: chez l'auteur, 1855), p. 78; English translation, Rasanblaj.