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War of Knives
Part of the Haitian Revolution and the Quasi-War
DateJune 1799 – July 1800
Location
Jacmel, Saint-Domingue
Result

Pro-Toussaint victory

  • Toussaint assumes control of the entirety of Saint-Domingue
  • Rigaud & mixed-race officers flee into exile
  • Reprisals & massacres against Rigaud supporters
Belligerents
France Pro-Toussaint forces
Naval support:
War of Knives United States
France Pro-Rigaud forces
Commanders and leaders
France Toussaint Louverture
France Henri Christophe
France Jean-Jacques Dessalines
France André Rigaud
France Alexandre Pétion
Strength
45,000 15,000

The War of Knives (French: Guerre des couteaux), also known as the War of the South, was a civil war from June 1799 to July 1800 between the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, a black ex-slave who controlled the north of Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti), and his adversary André Rigaud, a mixed-race free person of color who controlled the south.[1] Louverture and Rigaud fought over de facto control of the French colony of Saint-Domingue during the war. Their conflict followed the withdrawal of British forces from the colony earlier during the Haitian Revolution. The war resulted in Toussaint taking control of the entirety of Saint-Domingue, and Rigaud fleeing into exile.

  1. ^ Dubois 2004, p. 232.

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