Toussaint Louverture letter to Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1802)

In February of 1802, just months before he would be betrayed by the French, Toussaint Louverture, wrote this letter to Jean-Jacques Dessalines, He asks to burn down Port-au-Prince, to stop the advance of General Leclerc's troops, sent by Napoléon Bonaparte to re-establish slavery. Dessalines was the Commander in Chief of the revolutionary Haitian army in the West of Saint-Domingue at the time. The West, as a department in Haiti/Saint-Domingue, includes the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area.

Source: (Beard, p. 186f)