Talk:Raid on Saint-Paul

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Don't forget to submit this at DYK! &mdash; Ed 17   for President  Vote for Ed  19:25, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

To be added somewhere

 * According to Patrick Imhaus, the reason why the British met so few resistance when attacking Saint-Paul is because part of the notables of the city and of the western coast were simply royalists and welcomed an invasion (Imhaus, p. 39).
 * Jean-Joseph Patu de Rosemont, his son Amédée and their friend Nicole Robinet de La Serve took part in the fighting (Imhaus, p. 40).
 * Jean-Joseph Patu de Rosemont got captured and was held prisoner on a British ship. Amédée asked to the British commander to take the place of his father arguing that he had a large family to look upon. Joseph's slave Félix swam to the ship in order to be held prisoner together with his master. Eventually, Joseph was freed and he Félix knew manumission (Imhaus, p. 40).


 * Thank you very much! I have added the first point and the reference. I will add the second and third points after I have spoken to another editor who is good at translating articles (my French is not very good I'm afraid) to ascertain exactly who the men linked to were and hopefully get some articles on them translated. This system is quite a good one and it will probably work well on all the articles. Many thanks--Jackyd101 (talk) 20:09, 10 January 2009 (UTC)