Louverture expelled the French envoy by force of arms

Evidence

But he also called on a more daunting supporter. Within days Louverture was on the march. He ordered Dessalines to arrest Hédouville and Christophe to capture the leaders who had replaced Moïse at Fort-Liberté. Soon thousands of troops under Louverture’s command, as well as crowds of cultivators, surrounded Le Cap. On October 23 Hédouville, joined by most of the white officers who had come with him, boarded ships in the harbor of Le Cap and sailed back to France. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 775

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to reader’s own knowledge that Louverture balances between the metropole and colony autonomy — here the balance fails.