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1802, May 6–23

1802, May 6–23: (The Uneasy Armistice and the Demobilization of the South): Following Toussaint Louverture’s formal surrender at the Cap, General Leclerc hos…

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1802, May 6–23: (The Uneasy Armistice and the Demobilization of the South): Following Toussaint Louverture’s formal surrender at the Cap, General Leclerc hosted him for a tense dinner where Toussaint, wary of poison, refused all food except a small piece of cheese and drank only from a water carafe that had already been tasted. Toussaint quickly retreated to his plantation at Ennery, but the peace was fragile as Leclerc remained deeply suspicious of the former governor’s intentions. Meanwhile, Jean-Jacques Dessalines led his demibrigades back into the ruins of St. Marc—the town he had previously burned—to assume command of the Artibonite by Leclerc’s order. Despite these movements, Leclerc privately wrote to the Minister of Marine on June 6, expressing his distrust and his secret plan to arrest Toussaint and imprison him in Corsica.

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