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1802-02-24

Vernet burns the Gonaïves on Toussaint’s order

Haitian

On the approach of the Leclerc expedition, the town was burned by Vernet, on the order of Toussaint-Louverture (24 February 1802).

Rouzier tells this under the entry Gonaïves (les).

Source  ·  p. t. II, p. 24 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. II) (1892), p. t. II, p. 24