Miranda's Secret Army

Miranda recruited somewhere between a hundred and 80 and 200 men for his expedition. Most of these recruits claimed to have been duped by miranda, who did not tell them they were being roped in to revolutionary treason. Miranda believed he only needed a small corps to start with. So he loaded the leander up with all his guns and ammunition and supplies, including a printing press,. He sailed out of new york city in february 18 o six the leander sailed down the coast at jacques mell the port in the south province of now independent haiti. And it was in jacques mel that he first raised the flag that he had personally designed for a liberated