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'''Aux Cayes''' (also ''Les Cayes'', ''Okay'' in [[Kreyòl]]) is a southern port town in Haiti in the department Sud (''South''). It is the birthplace of [[André Rigaud]] (1761) and it was here that South American liberator [[Simón Bolivar]] first landed in [[Haiti]] (1815). | '''Aux Cayes''' (also ''Les Cayes'', ''Okay'' in [[Kreyòl]]) is a southern port town in Haiti in the department Sud (''South''). It is the birthplace of [[André Rigaud]] (1761) and it was here that South American liberator [[Simón Bolivar]] first landed in [[Haiti]] (1815). | ||
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| + | At a meeting in July of [[1803]] at Camp Gérard, near the town of Les Cayes, the Generals of the southern army under Geffrard, form an alliance with [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]]. | ||
[[Category: Places of the Haitian Revolution]] | [[Category: Places of the Haitian Revolution]] | ||
Revision as of 07:02, 13 December 2005
Aux Cayes (also Les Cayes, Okay in Kreyòl) is a southern port town in Haiti in the department Sud (South). It is the birthplace of André Rigaud (1761) and it was here that South American liberator Simón Bolivar first landed in Haiti (1815).
At a meeting in July of 1803 at Camp Gérard, near the town of Les Cayes, the Generals of the southern army under Geffrard, form an alliance with Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
