French forces drowned nearly 4,000 colonial troops in one month
Evidence
Despite his continuing loyalty, Maurepas was not spared: in early November he and his family were drowned in the harbor of Le Cap on Leclerc’s orders. The wife and children of Paul Louverture, who were in Le Cap, suffered the same fate. The French commanders deported whites who were tainted by their affiliation with black generals, including one known as the “black white.” In early November one officer fed up with the executions noted that within the past month the French had “drowned” nearly 4,000 colonial troops. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 1022
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- French officers drowned thousands of colonial black troops despite their loyalty (similarity 0.93)
- Hundreds of suspected colonial soldiers chose mass suicide over French imprisonment (similarity 0.82)
- Forced choice between French reprisals and insurgent death drove colonial troops to defect (similarity 0.79)
- Captured colonial soldiers preferred mass suicide to French imprisonment. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Leclerc drowned a thousand colonial troops in Le Cap harbor
#contradicts(0.60) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 1021 - Colonial troops faced a forced choice between joining insurgents or dying
#expands(0.40) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 1019