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1794-09-06

Toussaint Louverture enters Saint-Marc and withdraws

Haitian

On 6 September 1794 Toussaint Louverture, at the head of eleven thousand men, was let into the town by three hundred affranchis who had seized the gates; while his soldiers pillaged the town, an English frigate moored broadside opposite the Guêpes and cannonaded them. Toussaint, losing many men, had to retreat, and soon came back from the Verrettes to besiege the town again. On 5 October he seized Fort Bélair, and set up a battery at Fort Diamant, despite the fire of the English ships. He worked himself with his soldiers to haul a piece of cannon up there, which, in falling, crushed several of his fingers. No longer able to direct operations, he entrusted them to his lieutenants Blanc Casenave and Morin, and withdrew to a league from St.Marc. The English assailed the morne Diamant, and came to attack Toussaint’s headquarters. He raised the siege and went to recover at the Gonaives. In February 1795 Toussaint set out from the Gonaives and went to surround St.Marc closely with six thousand men. This town had been solidly fortified by Brisbane. Toussaint was losing many men. Governor…

Rouzier tells this under the entry ST.-MARC.

Source  ·  p. t. IV, p. 69 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 69