Pierre Michel

From TLP

Revision as of 00:47, 6 August 2004 by Stumax (talk | contribs)

(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

Jump to: navigation, search

Colonel Pierre Michel - Negro subordinate of Jean-Baptiste Villatte. When Villatte rose up against General Laveaux in Le Cap in 1796. Pierre Michel kept Toussaint Louverture informed. When Laveaux was captured, Pierre Michel "assembled all the men he knew to be loyal and called the cultivators to 'defend their friend Laveaux.'" (Parkinson, p. 101)

References

Parkinson, Wenda (1978). This Gilded African. London: Quartet Books. ISBN 0-7043-2187-4

Retrieved from "http://thelouvertureproject.org/index.php?title=Pierre_Michel&oldid=2927"

Navigation menu