Weapon-poor insurgents compensated with deception and improvised protective gear

Evidence

When they lacked weapons, as they often did, the insurgents used startling “ruse and ingenuity.” “They camouflaged traps, fabricated poisoned arrows, feigned cease-fires to lure the enemy into ambush, disguised treetrunks as cannons, and threw obstructions of one kind or another into the roads to hamper advancing troops.” Some insurgents advancing on Le Cap stood firmly up to three volleys of shot, each of them “wearing a kind of light mattress stuffed with cotton as a vest to prevent the bullets from penetrating.” Some demonstrated a suicidal courage when they “suffocated the cannon of the enemy with their arms and bodies, and so routed them.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 377

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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• Haitian insurgents used bait-and-ambush ruses that repeatedly fooled French troops (similarity 0.81)
• Haitian insurgents repeatedly baited French soldiers into ambushes using decoys and lures (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Weaponless insurgents compensated with ruses and improvised armor #corroborates (0.95)
• Haitian insurgents used bait-and-ambush ruses that repeatedly fooled French troops #exemplifies (0.70)