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1877-10-28

The victims of Saltrou are buried at Port-au-Prince

Haitian

On 15 March 1876, Boisrond-Canal and some thirty political friends exiled at Kingston went to land at Saltrou to attack the government of President Domingue. Hilaire Rabel, commandant of the commune, invited them to come ashore. Scarcely had they reached the shore when soldiers, posted behind the houses, shot them at point-blank range. The most agile regained the canoes and the ship by swimming, and left the bodies of their comrades lying on the ground. Upon their arrival at Kingston, General Boisrond Canal declared that the citizens Nathan Modé, Fourcaut Fleuriot, Chérilus Phanor, A. Sénécal, Phanor the son, called Au Cap, and Turenne Dérosier, dead at Saltrou on 15 March 1876, victims of an ambush by Hilaire Rabel, were inscribed in the Great Book of Honor of the Republic of Haiti, having deserved well of the Fatherland. On 28 October 1877, the government of Boisrond Canal had them buried at Port-au-Prince, in the outer cemetery.

Rouzier tells this under the entry SALTROU.

Source  ·  p. t. IV, p. 95 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 95