Rigaud and Bauvais emerged as free-colored military leaders by conquering Port-au-Prince.

Evidence

With the administration and many whites in the west turned against them, the radicals fell into disarray. Caradeux left the colony, carrying fifty of his slaves to the United States; Borel was arrested and soon left Saint-Domingue. In early July the army of free-coloreds, led by André Rigaud and Louis-Jacques Bauvais, entered Port-au-Prince. The remaining radical leaders were arrested; one of the most hated was executed in secret. Rigaud and Bauvais, having proved themselves as the military leaders of the free-colored insurgents, became French Republican officers. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 469

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• XREF: Rigaud’s rise here seeds his later rivalry with Toussaint Louverture, which dominates later phases of the revolution.