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1805-02-28

The Haitian troops reached the camp of los Puertos, where commandant Wiet resisted, and Dessalines afterward had him scourged with rods.

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The Emperor took the field on 16 February. It was only in advance of Azua, and some leagues beyond it, at the post of los Puertos, that he began to meet resistance. Three hundred men, with two pieces of cannon, commanded by the battalion commander Wiet, occupied this camp, before which our troops appeared on the 28th, at ten o’clock in the morning. The valiant 4th demi-brigade bore the chief part in this affair. Brigadier General Jean-Philippe Daux lost one of his aides-de-camp there. Wiet was taken prisoner (1).

He was a noble and courageous soldier, this young Wiet; a colonist of the plain of the Cul-de-Sac, he had more than once made the native army feel the vigor of his sword when it fought under the walls of Port-au-Prince for the success of independence: to a valiant enemy one must grant a salute.

But unhappily man lets himself be carried away into outbursts often inexcusable: Dessalines, in place of honoring in Commandant Wiet all the strength that virtue had gathered in the last representative of the white caste, ordered him scourged with rods.

Source  ·  p. 77 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 4 (Paris: Auguste Durand, 1857), p. 77; English translation, Rasanblaj.