Nicolas Geffrard (general)

Nicolas Geffrard was a Haitian general, and a participant in the Haitian Revolution. He was a signatory to the Haitian Declaration of Independence.
Born on the Périgny estate in Camp-Perrin, Geffrard was one of seven children born to Nicolas Geffrard pere and Julie Coudro, alongside Mathurin, Fénélon, Marie-Anne, Marie Catherine, Louis and Jacques.
After Haiti's independence, was made military head of the southern peninsula, where he supervised the construction of the Fort des Platons.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines sent General Nicolas Geffrard to put down the last uprisings of the supporters of Lamour Desrances in Jacmel. Lamour Desrances was arrested and his forces annihilated. Jean-Jacques Dessalines thus became master of the situation with 15,000 troops.
Geffrard was the father of:

Through this brother Fénélon, Nicolas was the uncle of the musician Nicolas Fénélon Geffrard, the co-writer of "La Dessalinienne"; it became the national anthem of Haiti in 1904.