The former rebel leaders Alexander Pétion, Henri…
October 1802 CE
The French forces, now only eight thousand to ten thousand men and only just able to serve, are overwhelmed.
After the recently-defected Christophe massacres several hundred Polish soldiers at Port-de-Paix, Leclerc orders the arrest of all remaining black colonial troops in Cap-Haïtien, and executes one thousand of them by tying sacks of flour to their neck and pushing them off the side of ships.
The French subsequently send orders to arrest and imprison all the black troops in the colony still serving within the French forces.
This included continually loyal officers such as Maurepas, who will be drowned with his family in the harbor of Cap Haitien on Leclerc's orders in early November.
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