Siege of Port-au-Prince (1803)
The Siege of Port-au-Prince was an engagement that took place during the Haitian Revolution.[1]
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Siege
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.[3]
Bibliography
- Charles Forsdick; Christian Høgsbjerg (2017). Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 978 0 7453 3515 5.
- Victor Schœlcher (1982) [1889]. Vie de Toussaint Louverture (in French). Éditions Karthala.
Notes
- Forsdick 2017, p. 126.
- Schœlcher 1889, p. 376.
- Schœlcher 1889, p. 377.
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