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4.06- The Second Commission

Revolutions

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The Second Commission of the French Colony of San Domang

The first thing new european soldiers do upon arrival in san domang is get sick and die. When the second commission arrived, there would turn out to be only about two thousand men actually fit for service in the colony. And of the six thousand reinforce ments they just brought with them, they would be down to three thousand in a matter of months. The commissioners were hampered right off the bat. They discovered that their an power was not nearly what they thought it was.

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