The Indigenous Army Emerges in the Summer of 18 O Three

The indigenous army emerged on may eighteenth, unified and ready to settle for nothing less than independence. The french found out because the british navy showed up to blockade their ports. Rochambeau and his men were now completely cut off, both from france and from each other. This is all incredibly good timing for desaline and his new indigenous army,. In june, he's writing letters to both the britISH governor in jamaica and the amer an government, requesting both arms and supplies. But american merchants, as usual, were all too happy to trade with desaline's army. So in the summer of 18 o three, the french cause is