Dieudonné’s troops shifted toward the British after being denied officer ranks

Evidence

In late 1795 the tensions between Dieudonné and Rigaud and Bauvais reached a breaking point. Dieudonné complained of their discrimination against black officers, pointing out that there were none in the towns under their command. Fed up, he opened negotiations with the British in Portau-Prince. During the previous years his army had besieged the city by damming up the streams that brought water from the mountains to the city. Now, as a goodwill gesture, his troops let the water flow down once again. Dieudonné requested that a market be opened where his followers could sell the harvests from their mountain plots, and in early January his soldiers, “armed and defiant,” sold poultry and vegetables to the hungry residents of Port-au-Prince. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 684