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Fort Delgrès
FOLLOWBasse-Terre, Basse-Terre
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OVERVIEW
Built from the seventeenth century above Basse-Terre and known successively as Fort Saint-Charles and Fort Richepanse, it was renamed in 1989 for Louis Delgrès, the free man of colour who led the 1802 resistance to Napoleon's reimposition of slavery. Besieged here, Delgrès withdrew to Matouba and died with some three hundred followers rather than surrender.
HISTORY
The fort holds the graves of Delgrès and of Admiral Gourbeyre.
REPORTED ACTIVITY
The site is a place of national memory in Guadeloupe. Visitors report an atmosphere in the lower casemates; that is generally understood locally in terms of what happened here rather than as a haunting.
VISITING
Open to visitors as a listed historic monument.
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