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1802-1804

1802-1804: Napoleon’s expedition sought to restore slavery; resistance led to the final defeat of French forces.

1802-1804: Napoleon’s expedition sought to restore slavery; resistance led to the final defeat of French forces. Napoléon Bonaparte sent a massive expeditionary army to Saint Domingue with secret orders to deport rebel leaders and disarm the population. General-in-Chief Leclerc arrived to reestablish metropolitan control and eventually restore the institution of slavery.

Source Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, pp. 183-184; Gaffield, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World, 4