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1801-01-29

Toussaint Louverture asked Don García for 30 thousand piastres-gourdes of the 320 thousand in the royal treasury of Santo-Domingo as a loan to the Republic…

Haitian

Toussaint Louverture asked Don García for 30 thousand piastres-gourdes of the 320 thousand in the royal treasury of Santo-Domingo as a loan to the Republic; on 12 February he asked that the rest be left for the troops, and on 15 February refused to let any money leave the colony, demanding arms, church vases and the Spanish archives.

Source  ·  p. 306, 307 Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. IV) (1853), p. 306, 307