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1801-02-12

Toussaint Louverture wrote to the First Consul asking confirmation of the senior ranks he had given…

Haitian

Toussaint Louverture wrote to the First Consul asking confirmation of the senior ranks he had given, saying he had named Moïse general of division after the taking of the Môle, kept secret until the taking of possession of the Spanish part, and Dessalines the same rank after the pacification of the South.

Source  ·  p. 330 Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. IV) (1853), p. 330