French concealed their heavy casualties at Crête-à-Pierrot

Evidence

In taking Crête-à-Pierrot, the French had suffered 1,500 soldiers killed and many more wounded, a serious loss for the expeditionary force. Leclerc, embarrassed by the defeat, ordered his officers to misreport the extent of the casualties, as he did in his own reports. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 971

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the wider pattern of how losing colonial powers spin defeats - compare with French reporting practices in later imperial wars and with the American dilemma histories.