The British sought to recruit Spain's abandoned auxiliaries, promising them freedom, and a few accepted and continued to oppose the Republicans under a new banner. Biassou "tried on the red jacket the British sent," and seems to have been tempted to continue fighting Louverture. Under the British, however, he would have had to fight under the command of white officers, and would have had much less autonomy than he had under the Spanish. Ultimately Biassou, Jean-François, and many other officers among the auxiliaries chose instead to leave their homeland under the protection of the Spanish, who resettled them throughout their empire.

Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ …, loc. 263