Louverture won Dieudonné’s troops by encouraging a mutiny against him.

Evidence

Louverture sent two emissaries to carry this letter to Dieudonné. He also gave them secret instructions: if Dieudonné was unwilling to come over to their side, they should encourage his followers to rise up against him. As Louverture reported with satisfaction to Laveaux days later, his plan worked beautifully. Dieudonné refused Louverture’s entreaty, but one of his lieutenants, Laplume, led an uprising that brought the several thousand troops who followed him to the Republican side. Dieudonné was imprisoned and died soon afterward. Laplume’s troops, however, did not submit to Bauvais and Rigaud, but instead put themselves under Louverture’s protection. Laveaux promoted Laplume to the rank of general. The tensions that had been smoldering between the colored officers and the leaders of the “African bands” were not resolved, just transferred into the beginnings of a conflict between Rigaud and Louverture. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 686

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s goal of tracing the narrative arc — this is an early seed of the Louverture-Rigaud conflict that defines later phases of the revolution.