Pre-independence On March 22, 1792, the city was the scene of one of the
first battles of the
Haitian Revolution. Men of color, under the leadership of Pinchinat,
Beauvais, and Lambert, took up arms in 1700 in fighting for their political and civil rights. In September 1791, after the Battle of Pernier, the royalist in La Croix-des-Bouquets made a concordat with the freedmen encamped at Trou-Caïman, which obliged the contractors to execute the national decrees in favor of the freedmen. On September 11, the freedmen came to camp at la Croix-des-Bouquets who signed a concordat with the freedmen in a church in the borough. On October 10, a deputation of the colonists of la Croix-des-Bouquets, sent by
Hanus De Jumécourt, came to Port-Républicain, demanding the execution of this concordat. In 1791,
Halaou, the leader of African bands, rebels of the
Cul-de-Sac Plain, was killed at Croix-des-Bouquets on February 9. There was a massacre of his group by the soldiers of the western region who occupied the village. Men of color entrenched themselves in the church. General
Louis-Jacques Beauvais continued to occupy Croix-des-Bouquets until March 1793, after which British invasion forces occupied the city. Beauvais' troops returned to
Jacmel. In March 1793, Louis-Jacques Beauvais abandoned Croix-des-Bouquets and went to retreat at
Gressier with 500 men. In April 1796,
Toussaint Louverture, wanting to recapture Croix-des-Bouquets from the British, unsuccessfully attacked the outposts of the town. His cavalry defeated four squadrons of
hussars commanded by the Count of Manoux. The British, after several charges, defeated the French, and drove them back to
Grands-Bois. After the occupation of Port-Républicain by the troops of General
Charles LeClerc's expedition, General
Jean Boudet learned, on February 9, 1802, of the appearance of Dessalines in the
Cul-de-Sac Plain. There were immediately 2,000 men occupying Croix-des-Bouquets. On September 19, 1803,
Jean-Jacques Dessalines took possession of Croix-des-Bouquets.
Post-independence The first citizen who represented this commune in the
first Chamber of Communes in 1817 was Plomba Ladouceur. On January 11, 1859 President
Fabre Geffrard's troops made their entry into resistance. During the Cacos Revolution in 1869, atrocities were committed in the name of President
Sylvain Salnave. On January 15, 1870, Generals Saint-Lucien Emmanuel, Alfred Delva, Errié, Ulysses Obas and Pierre-Paul Saint-Jean, after being outlawed by decree, were arrested and executed at Croix-des-Bouquets. The Nordists seized Croix-des-Bouquets on June 28, 1889, after the evacuation of the village by General Canal Jeune, whose forces were insufficient. Prior to the
2010 earthquake, the once crowded city had been restored. The streets had been cleaned up, wholesale merchants and other commerce had been relocated to Port-au-Prince. Retail commerce which once crowded sidewalks downtown now had a dedicated building. Also, the Cuban medical mission set up a
field hospital in the region. On 25 February 2021, hundreds of prisoners
escaped from the Croix-des-Bouquets prison. == Culture ==