This is the city where Haiti Flag was created in 1803. Dessalines convened a congress which decretal, under sap residence, for the creation of the first Haitian flag. He snatched the white flag from the Tricolore flag to take away from the French all hope to treat with the natives, again making them the deceitful promise of liberty. The blue and red colors represented the union of black and mulatto were placed vertically, the blue fixed to the lance and the red floating at the end.
