1801: (The Administrative Cadre and Toussaint’s Generals): By 1801, Toussaint Louverture’s administrative resources were composed primarily of his military s…

1801: (The Administrative Cadre and Toussaint’s Generals): By 1801, Toussaint Louverture’s administrative resources were composed primarily of his military staff and generals, as most trained government officials had fled the colony. His chief of staff, Agé, and adjutants general, Idlinger and d’Hébécourt, were European, while among his generals, only Clervaux was a mulâtre and an educated former affranchi. The rest of the leadership was composed of noirs, including the brutalized former field hand Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the youthful and intelligent Charles Belair, and the one-eyed, fierce Moyse. Henry Christophe, the ablest and most far-seeing general, had arrived as a lad from British Grenada, while Jacques Maurepas was a brainy, well-educated man who, like Clervaux, had never known slavery. Toussaint assigned these men to govern three districts: the East to Clervaux, Paul Louverture, and Pageot; the North to Moyse, Christophe, and Maurepas; and the West and South to Dessalines, Laplume, and Belair.