Mavougou was a bossale band chief who held camp near Porte St-Jacques in the North Province and conducted a systematic supply interdiction campaign against Leclerc's forces, seizing all convoys of provisions sent to the French garrisons at Dondon and Grande-Rivière — starving the 13th demi-brigade for 45 days, reducing them to eating roots.
Madiou documents this explicitly and Ardouin lists him among Sans-Souci's principal band chiefs alongside Macaya, Sylla, Vamalheureux, and Kakapoul; Madiou further names him among those who were 'declared enemies of Christophe, and even of Dessalines. ' Casimir includes him by name in his catalogue of bossale leaders the Haitian state found 'too embarrassing' to commemorate, because acknowledging his operational effectiveness means acknowledging that bossale commanders — not the creole generals — held the northern mountains when French power was at its height.
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- Allied withPetit Noël Prieur
Fellow bossale commander named alongside Mavougou in Madiou's roster of declared enemies of Christophe and Dessalines.
- Allied withKakapoul
Fellow bossale band commander named alongside Mavougou in Ardouin's and Casimir's rosters of the northern resistance.
- Allied withVamalheureux
Ardouin lists both Mavougou and Va-Malheureux among Sans-Souci's band chiefs.
- Allied withMacaya
Fellow bossale band commander in the northern resistance; Ardouin lists both among Sans-Souci's band chiefs.
- OpposedJean-Jacques Dessalines
Madiou names Mavougou among those who were 'declared enemies of Christophe, and even of Dessalines' — refusing subordination to the Creole generals.
- Allied withSans Souci
Listed by Ardouin as one of Sans-Souci's principal band chiefs in the northern bossale coalition.