1794

1793 1795



May

 * On May 6 Toussaint Louverture takes Mass with General Cabrera the Commander of the Spanish forces on Hispaniola and then rides out of San Domingo to rejoin France with his 4,000 trained troops.

June

 * On June 4 British troops capture Port-au-Prince.
 * On June 8 Brigadier General John Whyte, the commandant of the British forces in Saint-Domingue at the time, issues a proclamation on claiming British sovereignty over the colony.
 * On June 15 the French official Sonthonax is recalled to France to face trial for treason. (Parkinson, p. 83) He will return later in the decade.