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1802-Oct.-13

1802-Oct.-13: The generals Alexandre Pétion and Jean-Jacques Dessalines desert the French army to lead a unified popular insurrection.

1802-Oct.-13: The generals Alexandre Pétion and Jean-Jacques Dessalines desert the French army to lead a unified popular insurrection. Their defection signaled the collapse of Leclerc’s strategy to use colonial officers to pacify the majority.

Source Dubois, Avengers of the New World, 321; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 32