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It’s Sunday Could 19, 2024
Could 19, 1794: Port-au-Prince attacked by English forces who dislodged commissioners Sonthonax and Polvérel.
The English, who had simply acquired a reinforcement of almost 2000 males, grew to become emboldened and attacked Port-au-Prince, on the identical time bombarding town with their ships which crisscrossed the bay. The commissioners who had been there have been compelled to desert town and take refuge in Jacmel the place they boarded the French ship “L’Espérance” en path to France.
Could 19, 1803: Sacrifice and heroism of among the delegates to the Congress of Arcahaie. Gesture filled with patriotic symbolism from Laporte.
“The day after the convention, Cangé, Lamarre and their companions embarked to return to the plain of Léogâne. A French cruise provides chase to the flotilla. A barge that remained behind was going to be captured. Laporte, a person of colour, who commanded it, took a heroic decision at this second. He urges his companions to die reasonably than fall into the facility of the French. We smash the barge. Laporte blows his brains out and his sailors sink beneath the waves with cries of Lengthy dwell Liberty, Lengthy dwell Independence.”
Could 19, 1915: A French navy boat, the Descartes, returns to Cap Haïtien and chases the Cacos from the city. Rosalvo Bobo retreats on Lemonade.
Could 19, 1920: Benoît Batraville, chief of the Cacos resistance, is killed throughout an assault by the Marines, close to Lascahobas.
Could 19, 2007: Funeral of 59 of 61 Haitian boat folks, who drowned in early Could off the coast of the Turks and Caicos Islands, sung within the presence of an official delegation and the our bodies buried in a mass grave in Cap-Haïtien.
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