Saint-Domingue expedition

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Saint-Domingue expedition
Part of the Haitian Revolution
Legioniści na San Domingo by January Suchodolski
Date December 1801 – December 1803 Location Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) Result Haitian victory Establishment of the First Empire of Haiti
Belligerents
France Polish Legions	Indigenous Army United Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Charles Leclerc † Vicomte de Rochambeau  Jean Boudet Louis de Joyeuse Louis René de Tréville Federico Gravina	Toussaint Louverture  Henri Christophe Jean-Jacques Dessalines John Duckworth
Strength
31,000	22,000
Casualties and losses
35,000-40,000	80,000[1]

The Saint-Domingue expedition was a large French military invasion sent by Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul, under his brother-in-law Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc in an attempt to regain French control of the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola, and curtail the measures of independence and abolition of slaves taken by the former slave Toussaint Louverture. It departed in December 1801 and, after initial success, ended in a French defeat at the Battle of Vertières and the departure of French troops in December 1803. The defeat forever ended Napoleon's dreams of a French empire in the West.^[2]