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1802-Feb.-03

1802-Feb.-03: General Leclerc arrives with a massive French expeditionary force.

1802-Feb.-03: General Leclerc arrives with a massive French expeditionary force. Napoleon sent this fleet with secret orders to restore slavery and capture the revolutionary leadership. Significance: Triggered the final and most violent phase of the Revolution. Nuance: Initial divisions among Black leaders gave France temporary advantage. Resistance radicalized fully only after evidence of slavery’s restoration elsewhere in the Caribbean.

Source Fick, The Making of Haiti, 161; Dubois, Avengers of the New World, 262; Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, 25; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 30