Siege of Port-au-Prince (1803)

Siege of Port-au-Prince
Part of the Haitian Revolution
Port-au-Prince in 1800
Date October – November 1803 Location Port-au-Prince, Saint-Domingue Result Rebel victory
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

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

1. Forsdick & Høgsbjerg 2017, p. 126.
2. Schœlcher 1982, p. 376.
3. Schœlcher 1982, p. 377.

Bibliography

• 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.