Rochambeau massacred several hundred surrendered black troops at Fort-Liberté.

Evidence

The garrison of Fort-Liberté killed sixty of the arriving troops but, surrounded and outnumbered, soon put down their weapons. Rochambeau decided to make an example of the black troops, slaughtering several hundred of them after they had surrendered. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 936

Categorization

• SEED: Rochambeau’s massacre of surrendered troops as a turning point that erased French claims of bringing liberty — a clean example of how French brutality drove the slave officers into resistance.