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1792-09-17

The new civil commission, with Sonthonax, Polvérel and Aillaud, landed at the Cap.

Haitian

Such were the events that had just taken place in the West and in the South of the colony when the new commission civile landed at the Cap on 17 September. Then ended the painful yet glorious mission of Roume. He embarked at the Cap on 5 October, and arrived at Marseille on 18 December (1).

Source  ·  p. 170 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 1 (Paris: chez l'auteur, 1854), p. 170; English translation, Rasanblaj.