Bulletin of the ISPAN, No. 28: The Citadelle Henry: A Monument That Set Him Upright
Summary: The longest issue of the run, on the Citadelle Henry on the Bonnet-à-l'Évêque ridge: its geo-spatial data, recorded at 836 meters, and its outlying batteries work by work, including the Ramiers battery wrongly called the hospital, a 24-by-12-meter outer powder magazine south of the fortress at the foot of the Princesses battery.
Key Findings
- The bulletin presents the Citadelle Henry as part of the national defensive system created after independence and states that at least about thirty defensive works were built in the first years after 1804.
- The article recalls that Napoleon sent a 25,000-man expedition to Saint-Domingue, and that the indigenous army won the decisive battle of Vertieres on 18 November 1803 before independence was proclaimed on 1 January 1804.
- The Citadelle is described as an exceptional work within the fortification network, exceeding a strictly military role and becoming an intentional monument dedicated to the 1803 victory.
- The article cites Georges Duval, chief architect of historic monuments in France, describing the Citadelle in 1980 as one of the most extraordinary fortresses of its time.
- The visible technical description gives a building dimension of about 56 m by 13 m on average and a height of 24 m for one main built volume.
- The chronicle reports a 29 July 2011 seismic-construction training day in Delmas led by Patricia Balandier for Haitian architects and engineers, and notes her August 2010 to August 2011 training year in Haiti.
Full Description
The longest issue of the run, on the Citadelle Henry on the Bonnet-à-l'Évêque ridge: its geo-spatial data, recorded at 836 meters, and its outlying batteries work by work, including the Ramiers battery wrongly called the hospital, a 24-by-12-meter outer powder magazine south of the fortress at the foot of the Princesses battery. One issue of the Bulletin de l'ISPAN, the monthly bulletin of Haiti's Institut de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine National, which ran from June 2009 to at least November 2011 and documented one monument, site or historic center per issue.
How to cite
Institute for the Protection of National Heritage (ISPAN), 2011, Bulletin of the ISPAN, No. 28: The Citadelle Henry: A Monument That Set Him Upright, https://www.haiti.org/