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This day, the 27th [[Brumaire]], of the 12th year [November 19, [[1803]]], the Adjutant Commandant Duveyrier, having received full power from [[General Rochambeau]], Commander-in-Chief of the French army, to treat for the surrender of the town of [[Le Cap|Cape]], and [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]], General of the native army, have agreed on the following articles, viz. : | This day, the 27th [[Brumaire]], of the 12th year [November 19, [[1803]]], the Adjutant Commandant Duveyrier, having received full power from [[General Rochambeau]], Commander-in-Chief of the French army, to treat for the surrender of the town of [[Le Cap|Cape]], and [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]], General of the native army, have agreed on the following articles, viz. : | ||
− | :'''I.''' The town of the [[Le Cap|Cape]] | + | :'''I.''' The town of the [[Le Cap|Cape]] and the forts dependent thereon shall be given up in ten days, reckoning from to-morrow, the 28th of Brumaire, [[November 20, 1803] to [[General-in-Chief Dessalines]]. |
− | :'''II.''' The military stores which are now in the arsenals, the arms and the artillery of the town and | + | :'''II.''' The military stores which are now in the arsenals, the arms and the artillery of the town and forts, shall be left in their present condition. |
− | forts, shall be left in their present condition. | ||
:'''III.''' All the ships of war and other vessels which shall be judged necessary by [[General Rochambeau]] for the removal of the troops and inhabitants, and for the evacuation of the place, shall be free to depart on the day appointed. | :'''III.''' All the ships of war and other vessels which shall be judged necessary by [[General Rochambeau]] for the removal of the troops and inhabitants, and for the evacuation of the place, shall be free to depart on the day appointed. |
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One day after the crushing defeat in the Battle of Vertieres, Napoléon Bonaparte's top commander in Saint-Domingue surrenders to Jean-Jacques Dessalines. This paves the way for the Haitian declaration of Independence on January 1, 1804.
This day, the 27th Brumaire, of the 12th year [November 19, 1803], the Adjutant Commandant Duveyrier, having received full power from General Rochambeau, Commander-in-Chief of the French army, to treat for the surrender of the town of Cape, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, General of the native army, have agreed on the following articles, viz. :
Two copies of this Convention are hereby executed in strict faith, at the headquarters of 'Haut-du-Cap' on the day, month, and year aforesaid. ( Signed ) DESSALINES. DUVEYKIER. |
Source
- Léger, Jacques Nicolas. Haiti Her History And Her Detractors. (1907). The Neale Publishing Company. New York. available online p. 148f.
See also
- Haitian Act of Independence - Document from 1804.