Siege of Port-au-Prince (1793)
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| Siege of Port-au-Prince | |||||||
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| Part of the Haitian Revolution | |||||||
.jpg) View of Port-au-Prince by Nicolas Pérignon, 1791 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 French Republic | Insurgents | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Léger-Félicité Sonthonax Étienne Polverel Louis-Jacques Beauvais | Borel | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 1,350 men | 1,800 men | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
The siege of Port-au-Prince took place in April 1793 during the Haitian Revolution.
On 25 January 1793, the colonists, led by Borel, revolt against the commissioners Sonthonax and Polverel. The royalist "grands blancs" colonists and wealthy slave owners and the "petites blancs", modest or poor, or formerly, Republican colonists, united in their common opposition to mulattoes and free colored people. The colonists armed their slaves, joined forces with the soldiers of the Artois Regiment and made themselves masters of Port-au-Prince. The insurgents then sent a letter to London declaring themselves ready to pass under the suzerainty of the Kingdom of Great Britain in exchange for the conservation of their laws.[1]