Siege of Port-au-Prince (1803)
| Siege of Port-au-Prince | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Haitian Revolution | |||||||
 Port-au-Prince in 1800 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Indigenous Army |
 France | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
|
Jean-Jacques Dessalines |
Jean-Pierre Marie Lavalette du Verdier | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 22,000 | 1,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
The siege of Port-au-Prince was an engagement that took place from October to November 1803 during the Haitian Revolution.[1]
Siege
[edit]In October, 22,000 men of the rebel Indigenous Army under General Jean-Jacques Dessalines laid siege to the city of Port-au-Prince. After a month of siege and several attacks,[2] the defending French garrison under Jean-Pierre Marie Lavalette du Verdier evacuated the city and retreated to Cap-Français.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Forsdick & Høgsbjerg 2017, p. 126.
- ^ Schœlcher 1982, p. 376.
- ^ Schœlcher 1982, p. 377.
Bibliography
[edit]- Forsdick, Charles; Høgsbjerg, Christian (2017). Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 978-0-7453-3515-5.
- Schœlcher, Victor (1982) [1889]. Vie de Toussaint Louverture (in French). Éditions Karthala.