Dessalines burned Saint-Marc and massacred its white residents in retreat.

Evidence

Dessalines led by example, setting his splendid, recently completed mansion on fire. By the time the French entered they found the town smoldering and abandoned, with the dead bodies of several hundred residents, mostly white, left to greet them. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 957

Categorization

• XREF: The scorched-earth retreat foreshadows Dessalines’ later full-scale extermination policy in ‘Avengers of the New World’.