Louverture’s Republican army depended on French supply he constantly begged for

Evidence

Louverture’s troops were ragged, poorly paid, and often hungry. He regularly pleaded with Laveaux to send him more guns, more ammunition, more paper for cartridges. In early 1795, having received powder from Laveaux, he wrote that it was as if he had received medicine for a sickness. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 636