The Revolutionary Committee (French: Comité Révolutionnaire, pronounced [kɔmite ʁevɔlysjɔnɛʁ]; Haitian Creole: Komite Revolisyonè) was a governmental council that governed Haiti from July 28 to August 11, 1915.
[1] The committee took power after the death of Vilbrun Guillaume Sam and de facto controlled the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, with its activities having as its background the American invasion of Haiti and the rebellion of Rosalvo Bobo.
[3] In the context of a revolution led by Rosalvo Bobo against President Sam, a revolutionary plot attacked the national palace on the night of 26 to 27 July.
[6] Committee members were closely linked with July events: Delva, started the insurrection; Charles lost his brother Oreste Zamor and Polynice his sons, respectively, in the massacre of political prisoners perpetrated by Sam's loyal forces.
[8] One of the incidents of the short-lived government of Port-au-Prince was the arrest of Senator Joseph Dessources, motivated by his political agitation against the Revolutionary Committee.