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| − | * On '''September 17''' The French Commissioner of Saint-Domingue, [[Léger Félicité Sonthonax]], arrives in [[Le Cap]] together with [[Étienne Polverel]] and [[Jean-Antoine Ailhaud]] on board of the ship ''America''. Sonthonax expells [[Philibert François Rouxel de Blanchelande|Blanchelande]] from Saint-Dominique three days later. Commissioners [[Roume]], [[ | + | * On '''September 17''' The French Commissioner of Saint-Domingue, [[Léger Félicité Sonthonax]], arrives in [[Le Cap]] together with [[Étienne Polverel]] and [[Jean-Antoine Ailhaud]] on board of the ship ''America''. Sonthonax expells [[Philibert François Rouxel de Blanchelande|Blanchelande]] from Saint-Dominique three days later. Commissioners [[Roume]], [[Saint-Léger]], and [[Mirbeck]] leave Saint-.Domingue ([[Parkinson]], p. 66) |
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[hide]April
- On April 4' French General Assembly issues a decree which enfranchises free Blacks and free Mulattoes but does not emancipate the [[slaves. (Kennedy, p. 137) The Assembly prepares a second commission, led by Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, to enforce the ruling.
September
- On September 17 The French Commissioner of Saint-Domingue, Léger Félicité Sonthonax, arrives in Le Cap together with Étienne Polverel and Jean-Antoine Ailhaud on board of the ship America. Sonthonax expells Blanchelande from Saint-Dominique three days later. Commissioners Roume, Saint-Léger, and Mirbeck leave Saint-.Domingue (Parkinson, p. 66)
October
- In October Civil Commissioner Ailhaud returns to France.
- On October 21 Rochambeau is installed as Governor General for the first time. The second time, he becomes ruler of Saint-Domingue in November of 1802, until the Haitian revolutionary forces commanded by Jean-Jacques Dessalines deliver the final defeat to the French army in 1803.
References
- Kennedy, Roger G. (1989). Orders from France: The Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World, 1780-1820. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-55592-9.
- Parkinson, Wenda (1978). This Gilded African. London: Quartet Books. ISBN 0-7043-2187-4
