16215: Manigat on history of the word "caco"

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Maxmanigat@aol.com

According to historian Horace Paulus Sannon: "Histoire de Toussaint
Louverture, Tome III" 2nd edition 2003, p. 206, Note 15, the word "caco"
is a "corruption" of "TACO ... nickname given to the insurgents [during
the war if independence] because they used to hide, like the bird of the
same name, under the leaves to come unexpectedly upon and attack the
enemy" (my translation).