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1793-Jun.-20

1793-Jun.-20: Commissioners Sonthonax and Polverel offer rebel bands the sack of Cap Français to secure support.

1793-Jun.-20: Commissioners Sonthonax and Polverel offer rebel bands the sack of Cap Français to secure support. This desperate political gamble allowed the commissioners to hold power against white counter-revolutionaries.

Source Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, 14-15; Ghachem, The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution, 268; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 29