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The Haitian Revolution
In Our Time: History
The French Revolutionary Army and the Slave Rebels
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The French force is absolutely decimated. I think in the two years that the Napoleon tries to retake control of Haiti he sends something like 50,000 troops to Haiti, only 3,000 ever leave. This is the French Revolutionary Army, they have themselves been fighting for liberty and equality in Europe. They're absolutely just shaken to the core when they encounter these black armies who are using the same ideas and the same revolutionary rhetoric as them. Do I have any hard evidence about what some of them do to their switch sides? Some of them, there's a Polish regiment that comes across with the FrenchRevolutionary Army and some of the soldiers do actually, including some of the Polish population,
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