Disease and climate were rapidly consuming Leclerc’s invasion army within days

Evidence

Just a few days later, pleading for “troops, provisions, and money,” he wrote that he had over 2,000 soldiers in the hospital, including 500 wounded. He pleaded for hats to “preserve the soldiers from sunburns that send them to the hospital,” as well as medical supplies, noting anxiously that if he did not receive them, “no matter what supernatural efforts I make,” he would be unable to “preserve Saint-Domingue for the Republic.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 950

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the structural theme from earlier sources that yellow-fever and disease ravaged European armies in the Caribbean, dooming Leclerc’s force long before any pitched battle.