1796-03-20
The municipality of Le Cap decreed that Brigadier General Villatte, replacing the governor by rank, should secure the roadstead…
Haitian
The municipality of Le Cap decreed that Brigadier General Villatte, replacing the governor by rank, should secure the roadstead, the corvette Hyéna and the papers, and write to Toussaint Louverture, Rigaud and Bauvais; Villatte, who had kept aloof, took the authority.
Source · p. 138, 139
Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. III) (1853), p. 138, 139