Siege of Port-au-Prince (1803)
Siege of Port-au-Prince (1803)
During the Haitian Revolution, in October to November 1803, about 22,000 rebels from the Indigenous Army under General Jean-Jacques Dessalines besieged Port-au-Prince in Saint-Domingue. After a month of fighting, the French garrison led by Jean-Pierre Marie Lavalette du Verdier evacuated the city and retreated to Cap-Français. The rebels won. The Indigenous Army had roughly 22,000 troops against about 1,000 French soldiers; casualties are unknown.
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