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Siege of Port-au-Prince (1803)

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Siege of Port-au-Prince
Part of the Haitian Revolution
DateOctober 1803
(220 years ago) (1803-10)
Location
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Result Haitian victory
Belligerents
France Haitian Rebels
Commanders and leaders
Jean-Pierre Marie Lavalette du Verdier Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Strength
1,000 men 22,000 men
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown

The Siege of Port-au-Prince was an engagement that took place during the Haitian Revolution.[1]

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

  1. ^ Forsdick 2017, p. 126.
  2. ^ Schœlcher 1889, p. 376.
  3. ^ Schœlcher 1889, p. 377.
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