Aux Cayes

Aux Cayes (also Les Cayes or Cayes; Kreyòl:Okay) (8°12'N 73°45'W) is a southern port town in Haiti in the department Sud (South). It is the birthplace of André Rigaud (1761) and it was here in 1815, that the South American liberator Simón Bolivar first landed in Haiti.

Toussaint Louverture wrote in his autobiographical notes: "...When I returned to Cayes, after the departure of Gen. Rigaud, the treasury was empty..." (Beard p. 323)

At a meeting in July of 1803 at Camp Gérard, near the town of Les Cayes, the Generals of the southern army under Geffrard, formed an alliance with Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

References

• Les Cayes. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America, edited by Saul B. Cohen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. www.bartleby.com. [Accessed on 1/30/2006].
• Beard, J. R. (John Relly) (1863). Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography. Chapel Hill, NC: Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH. Online Publication