Britain's invasion of Saint-Domingue
1793–1798 · Event
Britain spends five years and perhaps 15,000 dead — mostly to yellow fever — trying to seize the world's richest colony and restore slavery in it. Toussaint's army grinds the redcoats out of the island; the catastrophe is quietly written out of British memory.
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