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1722-12-27

Treaty at Leogane ends the settlers’ revolt that had arrested Governor de Porel

Haitian

History. Here is how Ovando, governor of the island, succeeded in massacring the Indians of Léogane: In 1506 he set out from Sto Domingo with 300 arquebusiers and 200 Spanish horsemen, and came to camp in the plain of Yaguana (Léogane). Queen Anacaona received him without distrust and had Indian festivals celebrated as a testimony of her friendship. Ovando, for his part, announced a festival to the sound of the trumpet and of music. On a fine morning the whole Indian population gathered in the plain to attend a spectacle that seemed to it bound to be so beautiful. At a given signal the Spaniards fell upon the Haitians and massacred them, and took prisoner the queen, who was led to Sto Domingo, where she was hanged shortly afterward. In 1706 Mr. Auger, governor of the colony, was buried at Léogane. On 27 December 1722, the inhabitants of St Domingue having risen, they arrested the governor, de Porel; these troubles were calmed by a treaty signed that day at Léogane between the governor and the Intendant Mr. de Montholon on the one part, and the inhabitants in revolt on the other.

Rouzier tells this under the entry LEOGANE.

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 151 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 151