✦ History

Part of Haitian Revolution

Saint-Domingue expedition

December 1801 – December 1803

Result Rebel victory

Napoleon sent Leclerc with a large army to retake Saint-Domingue; disease and resistance under Dessalines defeated it, leading to Haitian independence.

Contemporaries

France

United Kingdom

Other

France
United Kingdom
Indigenous Army
Federico Gravina military commander Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse military commander Jean Boudet military commander Charles Leclerc military commander Donatien de Rochambeau military commander
Toussaint Louverture military commander Jean-Jacques Dessalines military commander Henri Christophe military commander Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
31,000
Casualties
35,000–40,000
Strength
22,000
Casualties
80,000
Deaths
23,000

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