12 to 22 February 1915 · Haitianspan
Haitian politicians queue up to be installed by the Americans
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On 12 February 1915 Admiral Caperton reported the offers he had been receiving. General Delly proposed that if he were given the Committee of Public Safety he would announce that he could not maintain order and ask for American troops. Momplaisir wanted to join Guillaume and then invite the United States in jointly. Ten senators proposed to keep Guillaume out of the capital so that an election could be held under American protection. All of them said these things privately and none in public, because a Haitian politician who said them aloud could be executed for it. Momplaisir was stabbed by his own men on 17 February in the scramble to board a ship at Saint Marc. By the twenty first, Port-au-Prince was ringed. Hannibal Hilaire held Bizoton, Charlemagne Peralte held the heights above Petionville with 1,500 men and had cut the water supply, and Guillaume was at Sibert. On the twenty second Davilmar Theodore rode around the city, returned to the palace, resigned, and boarded a Dutch steamer with barely the price of his ticket.
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