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In October, the rebel army commanded by General Dessalines, a force of 22,000 men, laid siege to the city of Port-au-Prince.After a month of siege and several attacks, [2] the French troops commanded by Lavalette evacuate the place and retreat to the Cap-Français.
Troops loyal to the commissioners commanded by generals Lassale, an European, and Beauvais, a mulatto, then laid siege to Port-au-Prince. For their part, the representatives Sonthonax and Polverel established their base at the port of Saint-Marc, took command of the navy and attacked from the sea. On 12 April the forces of the commissioners ...
Another source puts the number of rebel dead at 66, plus "many more" wounded and captured. One of the dead was Solomon Janvier, a Port-au-Prince resident and one of the leaders of the attack. [2] The surviving Cacos would remember the battle as "la débâcle". With the arrival of daylight, "patrols moved east and north of the city", killing ...
The Battle of Port-au-Prince took place on either the 6 or 7 October 1919 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] when Haitian rebels, known as Cacos, attacked the capital of Haiti ...
Siege of Port-au-Prince may refer to: Siege of Port-au-Prince (1793) Siege of Port-au-Prince (1803) This page was last edited on 30 ...
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In the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Canapé Vert on Monday, crowds seized a man they accused of belonging to a nearby gang – forcing him to walk down the road toward a cemetery before killing ...
Battle of Port-au-Prince may refer to: Battle of Port-au-Prince (1919) Battle of Port-au-Prince (1920) This page was last edited on 27 December 2019, at 19:57 (UTC). ...