Skip to content
🇭🇹   BETA  ·  Istwanou is free during beta — free access continues until January 1, 2027 or when we reach 100,000 entries, whichever comes first.  ·  4,236 entries published  ·  95,764 entries away from the 100k milestone.       🇭🇹   BETA  ·  Istwanou is free during beta — free access continues until January 1, 2027 or when we reach 100,000 entries, whichever comes first.  ·  4,236 entries published  ·  95,764 entries away from the 100k milestone.       
You are offline — some content may not be available
1802, May–July

1802, May–July: (The Secret Decree and the Return of the Yellow Jack): While Leclerc and his wife Pauline enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle at the Cap, Napoleon …

Haitian

1802, May–July: (The Secret Decree and the Return of the Yellow Jack): While Leclerc and his wife Pauline enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle at the Cap, Napoleon signed a decree on May 20, 1802, that overtly restored slavery and the slave trade in other French colonies like Martinique and Saint Lucia. Although Saint-Domingue was technically excepted on paper, Napoleon sent confidential copies of the decree to Leclerc, authorizing him to restore slavery whenever the time seemed opportune. Leclerc kept this order hidden, as his forces were rapidly being decimated by an outbreak of yellow fever that claimed thirty to fifty lives every day. The mortality rate exceeded 80 percent, and the dead were carted away by night to conceal the massive losses from the remaining population. By July, Leclerc was reporting 160 deaths a day, having lost nearly 3,000 men in June alone to the “Yellow Jack”.

Source  ·  p. 000115 HT-WIB-000113, 000114, 000115