Siege of Port-au-Prince (1803)

Siege of Port-au-Prince

Date	October 1803 (221 years ago) (1803-10)
Location	Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Result	Haitian victory

Belligerents

France

Haitian Rebels

Commanders and leaders

Jean-Pierre Marie Lavalette du Verdier

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Strength

1,000 men

22,000 men

Casualties and losses

Unknown

v t e Haitian Revolution
Insurrection Bois Caïman Croix-des-Bouquets Morne Pelé 1st Tannerie 1st Port-au-Prince Cap-Français Anglo-Spanish intervention Marmelade Saint-Michel-de-l'Attalaye Ennery Fort-Dauphin 1st Tiburon Acul La Bombarde 2nd Tiburon Les Gonaïves Port-Républicain 1st Dondon 2nd Tannerie Saint-Marc Léogane Saint-Raphaël Trutier 3rd Tiburon 1st Verrettes Grande-Rivière Las Cahobas Mirebalais 2nd Verrettes Petite-Rivière 2nd Dondon 1st Irois Jean-Rabel 2nd Irois War of Knives Jacmel Saint-Domingue expedition Ravine-à-Couleuvres Kellola Plaisance Crête-à-Pierrot 2nd Port-au-Prince Saint-Domingue Môle-Saint-Nicolas Vertières

Haitian Revolution

Insurrection

Anglo-Spanish intervention

War of Knives

Jacmel

Saint-Domingue expedition

The siege of Port-au-Prince was an engagement that took place during the Haitian Revolution.

Siege

In October, the rebel army commanded by General Dessalines, a force of 22,000 men, laid siege to the city of Port-au-Prince. After a month of siege and several attacks, the French troops commanded by Lavalette evacuate the place and retreat to the Cap-Français.

Notes

Forsdick & Høgsbjerg 2017, p. 126.
Schœlcher 1982, p. 376.
Schœlcher 1982, p. 377.

Bibliography

Forsdick, Charles; Høgsbjerg, Christian (2017). Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 978-0-7453-3515-5.
Schœlcher, Victor (1982) . Vie de Toussaint Louverture (in French). Éditions Karthala.

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