Bulletin de l'ISPAN, Special issue: Vertières, the continuation of the final battle: the expeditionary army, its account and its pretexts
Summary: The Bulletin de l'ISPAN, Special issue, of November 2020. The issue covers Vertières, the continuation of the final battle: the expeditionary army, its account and its pretexts. The Bulletin is the publication of Haiti's national heritage institute, which documents the country's built heritage monument by monument, its state of conservation and the work carried out on it. 21 pages.
Key Findings
- The bulletin continues ISPAN's Vertières series by examining French expeditionary explanations for defeat.
- It challenges accounts that reduce the failure mainly to yellow fever and stresses arrogance, racial prejudice and tactical failure.
- The defeat is framed as the first defeat of the Napoleonic army and a challenge to the global slave system.
- Military installations are treated as material witnesses to the French expeditionary army's surrender to the Indigenous Army.
- The report excerpts describe fighting at Breda, Palmiste and other defensive posts around Cap-Français.
- The issue reproduces Dessalines's 28 November 1803 notice that he would take possession of Cap under the capitulation.
Full Description
The Bulletin de l'ISPAN, Special issue, of November 2020. The issue covers Vertières, the continuation of the final battle: the expeditionary army, its account and its pretexts. The Bulletin is the publication of Haiti's national heritage institute, which documents the country's built heritage monument by monument, its state of conservation and the work carried out on it. 21 pages.
How to cite
Institute for the Protection of National Heritage (ISPAN), 2020, Bulletin de l'ISPAN, Special issue: Vertières, the continuation of the final battle: the expeditionary army, its account and its pretexts, https://www.dloc.com/AA00065766/00045