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1799-07-10

The Môle rose against Toussaint and recognized Rigaud

Haitian

On 10 July 1799, while the army of Toussaint was occupied fighting Rigaud at Grand-Goâve, at the beginning of that civil war, the town of the Môle, commanded by Bellegarde, rose against Toussaint and had recognized the authority of Rigaud. The latter sent to Bellegarde, as his lieutenant, Renaud Desruisseaux, who left the Cayes with munitions of war and provisions and a few officers. Moïse and Clervaux came to blockade the town by sea and cannonaded it vigorously for more than a week. It could not resist. Renaud Desruisseaux and Bellegarde, losing hope of being able to withstand a general assault that Moïse was preparing, threw themselves into a canoe on a dark night, with the treasury of the town, passed through the ships that were blockading the port, and arrived safe and sound in the South with Rigaud. The next day, 31 August, the army of the North entered the place and fell upon all the mulâtres.

Rouzier tells this under the entry MOLE SAINT-NICOLAS.

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 267 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 267