Saint-Domingue expedition

Saint-Domingue expedition
Part of the Haitian Revolution

Legioniści na San Domingo by January Suchodolski
DateDecember 1801 – December 1803
Location
Result

Haitian victory

Belligerents

France

Indigenous Army
United Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Charles Leclerc 
Vicomte de
Rochambeau
 Surrendered
Jean Boudet
Louis de Joyeuse
Louis René de Tréville
Federico Gravina
Toussaint Louverture Surrendered
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]

  1. ^ Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015. p. 141.
  2. ^ Roberts, Andrew (2014). Napoleon: A Life. Penguin. p. 378.