Devaux (spelled Dévaut in madiou-crete-a-pierrot-extraction) was a French brigade-level general killed during the first assault on crete-a-pierrot in March 1802, in the opening phase of the battle-crete-a-pierrot.
He entered the vault through Madiou's casualty list and remains a French-side connector: his death in the first attack documents the catastrophic cost of the opening French approach to the fort and makes legible the tactical logic that jean-jacques-dessalines had built into the defe...
TimelineAcross the historical record.
- 1802
Leclerc Expedition
expedition — the broader campaign context
- 1802-03-04
Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot
crete-a-pierrot — the full twenty-day siege of which the first attack was the opening phase