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1802-May

1802-May: Toussaint Louverture surrenders and retires to private life on his plantation.

1802-May: Toussaint Louverture surrenders and retires to private life on his plantation. His withdrawal from active command left his subordinates to collaborate with or resist the French presence.

Source Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, 26; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 30